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CONTENTS 



D K l» A R 1’ M E N 1’ S 




Ow the Cover 
LoW'Cost color 
materializes at last as 
the Mad ntos!) LC makes 
its debut. For complete 
specs on all the new 
Macs, see our special 
report heginninf^on 
page I6fi. (Photo by 
Mark Johann. ) 




in News 



Students blaze new 
trails in science with 
image processing 
software, page /J9. 



How to Contact Macworld 12 

MacBulletin 17 

Commentary/Jerry Borrell 23 

A call to action on ELF emissions. 

Letters 37 

Art Beat 51 

By Cathy Abes 

The Iconoclast 55 

By Steven Le vy The twisted talc of the Mac LC, the computer that refused to die. 

Conspicuous Consumer 85 

By Deborah Branscum The FDA pushes for lower electromagnetic emissions. 

State of the Mac 91 

By Bruce F. Webster Graphics acceleration rev's up, but roadblocks loom. 

Verbatim 107 

S of t V i e w ' s Sue M organ 

Mac Graphics Tools/Smart Chart Art 127 

By Arne H urty and Cathy Abes Dressing up Excel charts. 

News 139 

By Dan lift m an an d To m Moran 

New Products 263 

How To/Quick Tips 285 

By Lon Poole 

How To/Getting Started with Networks 291 



By Jim Held 

How To/insights on MacDraft 2.0 

By Charles Se i t er 

Updates 

Where to Buy 

Best-Sellers 



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Macworld the Macintosh*^ Magazine 



ecember 190 




The Macintosh Family Evolves 168 

/i y Lon Pool e Apple unveils its new lower-cost Macs — the Classic, the LC, and 
the Ilsi. 



Mac Classic 176 

li y Lon Poole Replacing the Plus and the SE, the Classic emerges as the new 
cntr\'-level Mac. 

MacLC 180 

Hy C h e ry I Spencer Well, it finally happened — Apple trotted out its under-$3000 
color system. Find out if the low-cost color Mac really lives up to its promise. 

Mac Ilsi 188 

B V J / m H e i d Svelte, swift, and affordable, the latest addition to the Mac II family 
looks mighty appealing. But can this low-cost, single-slot 68030 system replace the IIctc? 

The Santa File 196 

By D a v i d P o g u e It’s the night before Christmas and you still haven’t found 
just the right gift for that Macintosh hound? Just do a quick search on St. Nick’s database 
and you're certain to win the Christmas-gift race. 

Networking for the Novice 202 

B V B r i t a M eng Plan wisely, follow' a few basic rules, and you too can have a 
flourishing — and expandable — AppleTalk netw'ork. 




Game Hall of Fame 



By St e If e n Levy Once again, our dedicated 
(and plays and plays) the most exciting, challenging, 
all-around fun diversions — to proclaim this year’s top 









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The Santa File 

Lashminute shoppers: 
see page 196 to find 
the perfect gift for 
ever)fone on y’oitr list. 



LaserSafe 216 

lirasable magneto-optical disc 
drive. 

Discis Books 217 

Ten childrctPs books on CD ROM. 

More 3.0 218 

Outliner and presentation 
graphics program. 

CompuServe Information Manager 1.0 and 
CompuServe Navigator 3.0 220 

CompuServe communications 
packages. 

allShare 1.1, EasyShare 1.1, Personal 
Server Network 2.0 226 

AppleSbare-compatibie file sertf- 
ers that run in the background. 

MacDraft2.0 229 

Precision drawing program. 

Inside Information 1.0 231 

Writer’s reference. 

TeleFinder Group Edition 2.0 232 

Bulletin board software. 

Alarming Events 1.0 and Smart Alarms 3.0 
with Appointment Diary 3.1 234 

Calendar and appointment- 
notification DAs. 

DocuCompl.S 236 

Document-comparison utility. 

If:x Forms Designer 1.1 237 

Fonns-design software. 

DiskDoubler 3.D 238 

Finder-level file-compression 
utility'. 

Pyware Music Writer 1.1 245 

Music-notation software with 
MIDI features. 

LaserScript 251 

PostScript-compatible laser 
printer. 

Great Gantt 1.2 252 

Gantt chart-creation program. 

Sky Shadow 1.0.2 254 

Arcade game. 

MacSkil.0 255 

Skiing game. 

Word forWord Mac 1.2 256 

Document<onversion utility. 
Window Shopping 259 

Magic Typist 1.1, SwiftNotes 1.0, 
Stylist 1.0, MacLabelPro I.O, 
Talking Moose 3. 0. 






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Editor-in-Chief Jerry Borreil 

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EDITORIAL 

E.vecuiivc Editor Adrian Mello 
Managing Editor Charles Barrett 
Editorial Manager Jane Lagas 
Senior Associate Edltor.'Depts. Deborah Branscum 
Senior Associate Editor/Lah Manager Chip Carman 
Senior Associate Editor/I'eatures Joe Matazzoni 
Senior As.s(x:iate Edilor/East Coast Brita Meng 
Senior Associate lulitor/Reviews Carol Person 
Senior Associate lidiior/l*eaiures Cheryl E. Spencer 
Senior Associate Etlitor/Feaiures Suzanne Stefanac 
Associate Ediior/Depanmenis Cathy E. Abas 
.-\s.sociate Ediiors.'News Dan Littman. Tom Moran 
Associate Hdiior/Reviews Liza Weiman 
Senior Production Editor Luis A. Camus 
Senior Copy Editor Ruth Henrich 
Assistant Ediior/l-ib Mark Hurlow 
Assistant Editor, /New Product.s Mary Margarat Lewis 
Produetkin Editor Jo Ann Villalobos 
Copy Editors Marjorie Baer, Emily Bower, 

Felicity O'Meara, Katherine L. Ulrich 
Production /\ssistam Lisa Brazieal 
Editorial Assistants Julian C. R. Okwu, Tim Warner 
Editorial .-Vdminisiraiive /Vssistants 
Suzanne Courteau, Lyn Taylor 
Assistant lo the Editor-in-Chief Sandy Bufier 
Contributing Editors Robert C. Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, 
Rob Hahn, Jim Held, Dave Kosiur, Steven Levy, David Pogue, 
Lon Poolo, Stove Roth, 

Charles Selter, Franklin N. Tossler, Bruce F. Webster 
Overseas Editors Osmund Lind Iverson, Editor, Austra/ran 
Macworld, tel. 02-439-51 33; Peter Worlock. Editor. 
Macworld (U.K. edition), tel. 01-831-9252: David Ushijima, 
Contributing Editor, Japan 



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Design Director Dennis McLeod 
Art Director Joanne Hoffman 
Assistant Art Director Kent Tayanaka 
Designer Loslio Barton 

Designer/lnformationni Graphics Arne Hurty 
.\ssociate Designers Andrew Faulkner, Hae Yuen Kim 
Senior Design Associate Tim Johnson 
Design Associate Martha Katt 



PRODUCTION 

Director of Manufacturing Anne Foley 
Protfuction .Manager Claudia Dawn Smuklor 
Advertising Hilling Coortlinator So Fong Yip 
Advertising 'Praftic Coordinator Annette Garcia 



President/'CEO and Publisher, .Macw'orld 
Communications, Inc. James E. Martin 
Assistant to the President Terri Edelman 



December 1990. Volume 7. .Ntimlier 12 
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appointing gains. 

Not everybodj^was disappointed, however. According 
to a new independent study by Diagnostic Research, Inc.* 
companies that invested in Macintosh'computers are 
enjoying dramatic results. Managers gave Macintosh pro- 
ductivity ratings that were 37% higher than for MS-DOS 
systems and 32% higher than for PCs running Windows. 
Which is like getting back 17 extra weeks a year. 

In a global economy of snowballing competition, 
the story behind those figures may be of interest. 

In 1984, Apple introduced Macintosh on the simple 
premise that computers should work the way people do. 

Now, as others rush to market with Macintosh look- 
alikes, Apple turns out to have been the practical, de- 
pendable, resLilts-oriented computer company all along. 



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Our three new personal computers were designed 
to rectify the one flaw that still exists in Macintosh. 
Namely, some people still don’t have one. 

So now, starting at $999,^ there is a Macintosh at a 
price that almost everyone can afford. 

The Macintosh Classic* 

This one has everything that makes a Macintosh a 
Macintosh. Built-in networking. A SuperDrive" disk drive, 
which reads both Macintosh and MS-DOS files. And a 
$ 999 ^ price that includes the built-in monitor, 1MB of 




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chip. And it outperforms tlie popular Macintosh SE. 

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Macintosh color and graphics to a wider world. 

Witli its 16 MHz 68020 processor, it runs all the tliou- 
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And, with tlie optional Aj)ple* lie Card, it will run 
tliousands more ^ple n applications as well. 



\1deo chip runs an Apple monochrome or low-cost 
color monitor— without adding a video card. And the 
Macintosh LC, like die Mac'IIsi, lets you record your voice 
and odier sounds into die computer. Which will make 
voice-annotated software a standard Macintosh feature. 

The Macintosh nsL 

^ ^ 68 O 3 O microprocessor, the new 

Macintosh Ilsi delivers serious number-crunching at the 
most attractive possible price. 

Into its sleek package are compressed the powerfii 
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NuBus'“slot for high-performance graphics and acceler- 
ator airds. Along with adwuiced networking systems like 
Ethernet and Token-Ring. Plus a 40 or 80MB hard drive. 
Built-in video chips drive four different Apple monitors. 

Why the least 

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IVIACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 




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EtherGate is the only EtherTalk^7LocalTalk^“ gateway 
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LANs, no matter where they are. With a modem, EtherGate 
can communicate asynchronously over dial-up lines, or 
synchronously over dedicated lines or ISDN. Dial-ln Network 
Access™ allows a single remote Mac or PC to use inter- 
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The Productive Internetwork. 

Macs and PCs can also share serial devices through 
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Boeing Admits Electromagnetic Fields Harmed Worker 

In the first admission by a company that electromag- 
netic fields harmed an employee, Bt:>eing has settled 
a lawsuit with Rolx^n Strom, who developed leukemia 
after working in a Boeing electromagnetic pulse labo- 
ratory'. Strom and his fiimily will receive more than 
S500,()()() in cash and an additional annuity. The suit 
alleged in pan that Boeing, while knowing that the 
very' high levels of electromagnetic fields might be 
banning lab workers, arranged for repeated phy'sical 
examinations without revealing that the purpose of 
the exams was to study possible health damage. Elec- 
tromagnetic fields that emanate from computer CRTs 
at a much lower intensity have recently come under 
scrutiny as potential health hazards. 

Apple Pulls System^ 6^.^ 

After rinding last-second bugs in System 6.0.6, Apple 
was forced to replace the system disks packed with 
early models of the Macintosh Classic, llsi, and LC. 
The operating system sometimes could not recognize 
AppleTalk and sometimes caused the keyboard to 
freeze. A{)ple is replacing 6.0.6 with System 6.0.7, 
which the company hopes to add to all U.S. models 
by the time they leave dealers. In some overseas areas 
Apple is issuing a temporary' bug fix because of lo- 
calization problems. If your new Mac has System 6.0.6, 
contact your dealer. System 6.0.7 will also be posted 
on AppleLink and other electronic bulletin boards, or 
you can call Apple at 800/366-9622. 

Some Maci ntosh LCs M ay Shi p Early to Dea lers 

The k)w-cost Macintosh LCs will probably not be on 
the dealer price list before mid-November, but Apple 
is try'ing to get units to its dealers early, possibly by 
the end of December, .so that customers can inspect 
the new computer. Volume shipments are still ex- 
pected to begin by late January', an Apple spokesper- 
son .said. 

Production Problems Delay the 68040JProcessor 

Motorola’s 68040 processor, much heralded successor 
to the 68030 that is the heart of current high-end Macs, 
has been delayed due to manufacturing problems. The 
delay will move volume shipments back to the fourth 
quarter. 'Lhe problem casts doubt on the ability of Next 
and other workstation vendors to ship large numbers 
of machines ba.sed on the 040. However, the delay 
has not affected any Apple systems currently under 
development, according to Motorola. 



Apple Slashes Cost of llci 

Apple has cut the suggested list jDrice of the Macin- 
tosh I Id by $1500 to help position the system as the 
replacement for the Ilex, which the company is phas- 
ing out. A Ilci with 4MB of R/VM and a SuperDrive 
floppy disk drive now lists for $5969, down from $7469. 

Speech Recognition Advances 

Emerson & Stern has developed Soliloquy, speech- 
recognition technology' that increases the vocabulary' 
of listening machines at least tenfold over current 
products. Most speech-recognition systems use spec- 
tral pattern matching, which compares each digitized 
word to a database of words represented as graphs of 
frequency versus time. Soliloquy instead represents 
words by how the mouth moves to pronounce them, 
a technique that is speaker independent. Soliloquy can 
also interpret broken sentences and nonstandard word 
order. Potential licensees can contact Emerson & Stern 
at 619/457-2526. 

Storm Technology Shows 60-MIPS Com pression Board . . . 

Storm Technology has designed a 60-MIPS digital sig- 
nal processor (DSP) board that runs the company's 
Picture Press compression software. The $999 
PicturePress Accelerator board makes the compres- 
sion of 24-bit color images almost instantaneous. The 
board is compatible with the latest version of the JPEG 
image-compression standard. The PicturePress Accel- 
erator is available now. For more information, call 
Storm Technology' at 415/322-0506. 

. . . And Radius Demonstrates Compression Software 

Radius has unveiled software, also compatible w'ith 
JPEG, that it says can compress and decompress im- 
ages about ten times faster than Kodak’s Color 
Squeeze or Storm Technology'’s PicturePress software 
(not the board mentioned above). In demonstrations, 
the unfinished software (code-named Piculator) 
compresses images to as little as ‘/so their original size. 
Radius hopes to ship a final version by year’s end at a 
price expected to be below $300. For more informa- 
tion, contact Radius at 408/434-1010. 

Ariel Unveils Early DSP5600 1 Boa rd fo r the Mac 

Ariel Corporation is shipping the first digital signal 
processing (DSP) board that’s based on Motorola’s 
powerful DSP56001 chip and intended for the Macin- 
tosh II series. Called the Mac-56, the board is designed 
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to speed up applications such as digitized audio, 
video, and graphics. At first it will ship only to de- 
velopers, along with a DSP development tool- 
kit. The Mac-56 sells for $2995 and is available from 
both Ariel and Momentum Data Systems, which 
wrote some of the software for developers. Por more 
information, contact Ariel at 201/249-2900, or Mo- 
mentum at 714/557-6884. 

Utility Synchronizes II Displays to TV C ameras 

As one more step in Mac-video integration, Apple has 
introduced VideoSync, an e.xtension to system .soft- 
ware that helps synchronize Mac II screens when they 
are being taped by ctmsumer-grade video camems. 
Having installed VideoSync in the System Folder, the 
u.ser adjusts the timing of the tlisplay board until the 
Mac’s screen appears stable on NTSC video-recording 
eciLiipment. However, the utility rec|uires a Mac Il-se- 
ries CPU, System 6.0.4 or later, an AppleCoIor High- 
Resolution RGB Monitor, and an Apple display board. 
It also works with some third-party displays that sup- 
port Ajiple display adapters, accortling to Apple. The 
utility costs $35 and is available through APDA. For 
more information, call APDA at 800/282-2732. 

PSI Ships Bus-Ext ende r Board for Mac 11^ 

Pinnacle Sales International is olfering a bus-extender 
board that fits into the SH/30 slot on Apple's new Mac 
llsi and lets users add cache RAM or a floating-point 
unit (FPU) math coprocessor anti still be able to add 
on a network or accelerator board. Called the SE/30 
Bus Adaptor Card with Cache/FPU Option, the $99 
device is similar to the bus extender offered by Apple 
but does not require the buyer to pay for an FPU if 
it’s not needed. PSI also says it has begun shipping its 
Complete Fax/Modem, an internal board for the Apple 
Portable. T’he $599 board sends faxes at 9600 bits 
per second and its modem tninsmits at 2400 bps. If 
ihe Portable is in sleep mode when a transmission 
comes in, the Complete can wake the system up. 
For more infomiation, contact PSI at 408/559-8544 or 
800/622-1722. 

ArchiC AD is Abuilding 

Version 4.0 of Gmphisoft's ArchiCAD will add many 
new features. New rendering capabilities include 
antialiasing, material properties, 24-bit color, and 
RenderMan compatibility. The new version also sup- 
ports direct import (^f Swivel 3D objects; unlimited 
layering; entering and editing multiline text directly 
on the image; and batch rendering of animation se- 
quences. Pricing for version 4.0 was not set at press 
time. For more information, contact Graphisoft at 
415/266-8720. 

A utomatic Publis hing 

A new versiem of Timeworks’ low-end page-layout 
package Publish It Ea.sy incorporates cools not yet 
available in the full-featured version. Publish It. The 
program can automatically choose font and style set- 



tings for imported text and headlines; in thumbnail 
view, you can change joage order and mt)ve objects 
from page to page; and a slide-show feature displays 
sequences of pages with dissolves, wipes, and other 
transition effects. Version 2.0 generates a checklist for 
seiwice bureau-bound files, creates spot-color sepa- 
rations, and can Import PICT2, 'ITFF, Apple II word 
processor, and Apple 11 graphic's formats. It will list 
for $249.95. Timeworks is at 708,^948-9200. 

Eastgate Drivos on De epor into Jjypojtqxt 

Eastgate Systems, |■)ublisherof the hypertext authoring 
s>'stem Hypergate Writer and Hypergate-based works 
like the political simulation The Election of 1912, is 
preparing new hypertext works and will publish a new 
authoring system called Stoiyspace. Stor\'Space has 
both outliner-like hierarchical fejitures and hypertext 
linking; provides intelligence to use in guiding a 
reader’s path through a document; and can expoii 
documents to HyperCard 2.0 with all links intact. Af- 
ternoon, Eastgate’s first Storyspace-based novel, 
concerns a man reluctant to confirm that a car accident 
he just witnessed may have killed his estranged wife 
and son. Stoiyspace will list for $160, and Afternoon 
for $19.95. Eastgate Systems is at 617/924-9044. 

Font Mong er to Suppmt TrueType 

Ares Software is entering the market with FontMonger, 
a utility that converts fonts in any direction among 
Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType. FontMonger maintains 
hinting information, has support for inferior and su- 
perior characters, and can access glyphs (special 
characters not ordinarily available from the keyboard, 
such as ligatures). FontMonger will list for 599.95. For 
more information, call 415/578-9090. 

C empetiti on fo r MacInTax 

ChipSoft is devek^ping a Mac version of I’urboTax that, 
like MaclnTiLx, produces IRS-ready income tax forms, 
but also has features SoftView’s product lacks. 
TurboTax’s help system walks users through complex 
problems such as setting up a depreciation .schedule, 
and its Data ILxaminer checks for conflicting or incom- 
plete information. 'FurboTax imports files directly from 
Quicken, Managing Your Money, Excel, and .MacInTax. 
It lists for 589, and schedules for 1 1 large states will be 
available for 1990. For more information, contact 
ChipSoft at 619/453-8722. 

Th e Evolution of Answ ers 

Evolver, an add-on to Wing/, is bringing genetic algo- 
rithms to the Mac. Evolver is a nonlinear optimizer that 
monitors its own output and modifies its .search for 
the best solution to numerical models constructed in 
Wingz. Unlike Heizer’s Best Answer, Evolver can opti- 
mize for nonlinear, random, anti .stochastic situations 
such as fluctuating interest rales. Axcelis is also devel- 
oping an Excel-compatible version of Evolver; both 
versions will list for $145. For more information, con- 
tact Axcelis at 206/624-2446. □ 



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It's no accident that the high 
performance of Canvas'" 
evokes images of a jet fighter 
in full flight. 

Fact is, its technical draw- 
ing power renders Canvas 
remarkably adept at evoking 
almost any kind of image you 
could want. 

Over time, this has served to 
render Canvas’s competitors 
rather speechless. And its 
reviewers, just the opposite. 

A quick tour of its amazing 
arsenal of weapons helps 
explain why all the commotion. 

Advanced Bezier and spline 
curves with total editing con- 
trol. 64,000 dpi accuracy. 16 
million-plus colors. Custoj 
rulers, dashed lines, ai 
arrowhead styies. }. . 

inch hairlines.^tt{b^ject 
distributioman^;drmensioni^ j 
of lines Auto tracing^fj 
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All Illustrations were 
created in Canvas 
and separated by the 
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screen angle adjustments and 
independent color overrides. 
Flexible EPSF export formats. 
Importing of MacDraw* I or II 
files. Smooth text handling 
and a 100,000 word onboard 
spell checker. 

The list just goes on. And on. 
And on. 

Yet despite all this technical 
prowess. Canvas has earned 
consistent applause for its 
intuitive design & ease of use. 

And, perhaps best of all, for 
its list price of under $300. 

So, if you’re looking for a 
lot more thrill and a lot less 
limitation, look into Canvas. 

By any measure, it’s the only 
|o fly. 

ditional information 
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Msmatch 




Up until now. color matching on the Macintosh* has 
been pretty much hit or miss. But now there's a color 
matching s_ystem that changes all that. It's called 
SuperMatch and that's precisely what you get from 
it— every time. 

The Color You See Is The Color You Get. 



SuperMatch does much more than color calibrate your 
monitor. It matches all the color in your entire sy^em— 
those you scan and display as well as those you print. Think of it as 
WYSIWYG for color. 

With SuperMatch. you can be sure that what you see on the 
screen is what people will see in print— whether it's a color print. 



a 35mm slide or an overhead transparency. You 
don't have to spend a lot of time tweaking color to 
get the output you want. And you don't have to 
make costly test runs. You're always assured a 
precise match between on-screen and printed color. 

And this doesn't just apply to spot-color for logos. 
SuperMatch also provides continuous-tone color 
matching, so that photos and detailed illustrations 
can always be matched perfectly. 



An Open System Keeps Your Options Open. 

SuperMatch is unique in that it's an open color matching system, 
supported by all the leading color scanner and printer vendors. 



SuperMatch is based on 
the CIE color model, 
which mathematically 
dehnes all colors the hu- 
man eye can perceive. 



Without Sup^atck 
the color you disf^ay isn't 
always the color you print. 









Which means it works with virtually any Macintosh II 
color peripheral you might use. And because it’s 
completely transparent to your software, SuperMatch 
works with any application. 

Not only that, but the SuperMatch Display Calibrator 
makes it possible for the same type of monitors to show 
documents exactly the same way. So you can divide up a 
large design project among several locations— and not 
worry about varying color quality. 

SuperMatch even gives you the flexibility to 
simulate the final viewing environment, create 
images under fluorescent light and preview 
them under daylight or other conditions. 



vm SuperMatch 
thecoloryoudi^a^ 
isthecoloryouprint. 

If You’re A Perfectionist When It 
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You simply won't find any color matching system on 
the market today that can compare to SuperMatch. But 
don’t take our word for it— we invite you to see for 
yourself exactly what this revolutionary new color 
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Once you see SuperMatch in action, it'll surely color 
your opinion— not to mention every one of 

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Th^ A^d the SupecMac dealer nearest you, call 

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At the heart of the 
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“Connect with Paris 
as easily as Purchasing.” 

“QuickMaiC” users have redefined 
workgroups to include co-workers and 
clients, partners and prospects, folks down 
the hall or up and down the coast. It’s 
collaborative computing with point and 
click simplicity. Send a message, a docu- 
ment, or a whole file to everyone you work 
with. Connect through commercial online 
services, remote QuickMail networks or 
with any fax in the world with one key- 
stroke. Add gateways to your mainframe, 
VAX,"^ or NetWare TCP/IP, 
or X.400 networks just as easily. No other 
E-mail offers you this many connections.” 

“Get the features that 
really make E-mail deliver.” 

“Features that make your extended 
workgroup easy to manage: A mail log tells 
you the status of all your mail- who’s read it, 
who hasn’t. Sort mail and file it in personal 



mail folders so you can track conversations 
or projects. Retrieve messages or even 
‘unsend’ them.” 

“And features that make it easy to work. 
The QuickMail Menu^^’ is always tliere so 
you can send a quick message, attach your 
open document or up to 90 seconds of voice 
mail, set up an impromptu online conference, 
post a notice to your whole directory or a 
pre-set group, or send mail for delayed de- 
livery all without leaving your application.” 

“No wonder it’s the 
world’s most popular.” 

“QuickMail is working for over a quarter 
million u.sers in 60 countries. It got the 
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Late Twentieth Century: ELF Emissions 




BY JERRY BORRELL 

hen in the course of human events society 
tecomes sophisticated enough to develop technolog\^ that exceeds 
its ability to understand or assess, government has the responsibil- 
ity to provide guidance and, if needed, regulation regarding the 



use of that technology. 

These high-sounding words re- 
flect upon the issue of extremely-low- 
frequency (ELF) emissions from per- 
sonal computers that we brought to 
the fore in our July issue. I never 
would have thought 14 months ago, 
when proposing chat Macwojid ad- 
dress the issue, that we would find 
ourselves in the midst of an object 
les.son on how our government deals 
with — or more aptly, muddles 
through — the development of public 
policy. 

Our reporting on ELF emissions 
hit a raw nerve with many of you. The 
letters, phone calls, and coverage of 
our articles by others in the media 
were unprecedented. Yet the amazing 
aspect of this ongoing story is the in- 
effectiveness of the federal govern- 
ment with regard to this issue. It is this 
concern that Deborah Branscum (see 
Conspicuous Consumer) and I ad- 
dress in these pages. 

As a result of speaking with Food 
and Drug Administration (FDA) rep- 
resentatives last .May — and having read 
the EPA’s impressive draft report on 
the subject of ELF emissions from that 
agency’s young turks (which subse- 
quently was and still is being watered 
down at higher levels) — I had already 




Senator Albert 
Gore, Jr. (D-Tenn.), 

CHAIRMAN OF THE 

Senate Science Sub- 
committee, AGREED TO 
HOLD Senate hearings 



come to expect stonewalling from 
federal agencies on the issue of ELF 
emissions. As a longtime obsei*ver of 
the executive branch of our govern- 
ment, I had no hope it wc^uld take an 
unequivocal position on a complex 
issue involving hejtlth, technology', and 
public policy. After all, it took the 
Federal Trade Commission (F'rC) 13 
years to have one manufacturer re- 
move the word liver from its 
product’s appellation (Carter’s Uttle 
Liver Pills were shown to have no ef- 
fect on the liver). 

After withstanding decades of 
bombast about the reduction of crime 
in our cities, the successful waging of 
war on drugs, the elimination of pov- 
erty, and the myriad other political 
promises to better our society, few of 
us have illusions about the effective- 
ness of our government. But it takes 
the abrupt interaiption of something 
in our daily lives to remind us what 
the impact of our society’s inexorably 
increasing complexity will be. Our July 
issue caused such an archetypally rude 
awakening. 

We raised issues of science policy, 
a bailiwick only rarely visible in the 
public eye. But more important, we 
encroached upon the political morass 
of public health policy and upon the 
domain of regulation covering public 
utilities. The process of justifying the 
technolog>' issue we raised as one 
meriting national attention would 
have been difficult enough. The addi- 
tion of lobbyists and vested interests 
related to health and electrical power 
(continues) 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



23 




COMMENTARY 




Congressman George 
Brown (D-Caijf.) 

INTRODUCED AN 

APPROPRIATION BILL TO 

FUND ELF RESEARCH 

almost guaranteed the assignment of 
the ELF issue to political oblivion in a 
national arena. At most it would have 
been consigned to that political 
swamp of the never-ending inter- 
agency task force, the blue-ribbon 
panel, or the investigative committee. 

Few doubted, or if they did, could 
adequately defend before public 
scrutiny their criticisms of the argu- 
ment that ELF emissions are a valid 
issue of concern. Even the EPA draft 
document cites over 40 studies relat- 
ing ELF emissions to possibly nega- 
tive impact on human health. 

Our challenge was ht)w to bring 
enough attention to l3ear upon the 
issue to cause regulatory agencies to 
promulgate standards. Therein lay the 
lessons we were about to learn with 
regard to public policy. 

Public and Private Justification 

One of the great shocks we received 
during the height of discussion on the 
subject was Apple Computer’s public 
relations department’s citing of state- 
ments from public health organiza- 
tions and associations to the effect 
that ELF emissions do not present a 
health concern. In statements on CBS 
and CNN Apple frequently cited the 
American Medical Association (AMA), 
the American College of Obstetricians 
and Gynecologists (ACO&G,) the 
World Health Organization (WHO), 
and others. 



After some digging 
I was able to deter- 
mine that the Interna- 
tional Radiation Protec- 
tion Association (IRPA) — 
a group associated with, 
but not part of, WHO — 
had an interim standard 
for ELF emissions thou- 
sands of times in excess 
of the field strengths 
questioned in many 
studies. 

Discovery of IRPA’s unrealistic 
standard set us out on the trail to ask 
how the other public organizations 
and associations cited by Apple could 
take the stance that there are no 
problems with ELF emissions — espe- 
cially in an era when a group such as 
the American Bar Association finds it 
inappropriate to even publish an 
opinion about a subject such as abor- 
tion. How could the AMA and others 
take a stance on an issue so little un- 
derstood as ELF emissions? Despite 
troubling research, both the AMA and 
the ACO&G continue to assume, in 
effect, that personal computers are 
safe. An amazing stance, given the 
movement toward concern over ELF 
cited by our consumer columnist at 
both the FDA and the EPA. 

Congressional Interest 

The Electrical Power Research Insti- 
tute (EPRI); the Council on Office 



Technology (COT), a lobbying group 
funded by the Computer and Business 
Equipment Manufacturers Association 
(CBEMA); and others have been cited 
as sources of repute and agreement 
that ELF emissions do not present 
reasons for concern. Similarly, eminent 
scientists (whose funding from the 
electrical power industry^ has received 
little publicity) have also been cited as 
credible sources by those belittling EU^ 
emissions as a genuine concern. 

We, the editors, found ourselves 
facing well-coordinated, efficient 
public relations and lobbying organi- 
zations put into place over the last 
several decades by one of the most 
powerful interest groups in our na- 
tion: the electrical power industry. I 
had not reckoned that in taking a 
stance on this issue we were also tak- 
ing a position that might cause this 
group to bring its considerable re- 
sources to bear. 

Congressional Activity 

Despite the clout of the electrical 
power industry, a window of public 
scrutiny on the issue was briefly 
opened as a result of the coverage 
given to our July issue and to articles 
in the New Yorker by Paul Brodeur on 
the relationship of power substations 
to cancer clusters in several suburban 
areas. 

Just before the publication of our 
July issue I visited with Senator Alben 
Gore, Jr. (D-Tenn.), 
chairman of the Senate 
Subcommittee on Sci- 
ence, Technology and 
Space. After a briefing on 
the issue, he agreed to 
hold hearings in the Sen- 
ate on the subject. The 
senator hedged the 
promise before we 
parted, but I had hope 
that he would take some 
action. He had already 
demonstrated a concern 
about the issue, as a congressman and 
as chairman of the House Subcom- 
mittee on Oversight of Science and 
Technology, during hearings on the 
subject of ELF emissions in 1981. 

Gore, as you may remember, 
made a strong run for the Democratic 
nomination for the presidency in 1986. 
(continues) 




David Nagel of Apple 
Computer spoke in 
FAVOR OF National 
Academy of Science 
research 



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delicate position, torn 
between a strong record 
on consumer issues and 
the requirement to rep- 
resent the economic in- 
terests of his constituents 
(he is from a state that is 
home to the Tennessee 
Valley Authority, which 
earns $5 billion a year in 
revenues from electrical 
power generation, and 
home to the majority of 
its 26,000 employees). 

Gore’s professional staff director 
on the science committee was more 
than a little skeptical about ELF as an 
issue. So even at the outset 1 had some 
fc*ar that the issue might become lost 
in a maze of budget reconciliation and 
this fall’s reelection concerns. 

At press time it was not suiprising 
that the Senate Science Committee 
staff could only report ... no activity, 
check again next session. 

House Hearings 

Mucli to our surprise, our articles re- 
ceived wide coverage on Capitol Hill. 
Several committees and subcommit- 
tees wrote or called to ask for copies. 
In combination with the national me- 
dia coverage of our July issue and of 
Brodeur’s New Yorker articles, the 
House of Representatives conjured up 
some concern at hearings held in July 
on two funding bills for further re- 
search on the subject. One was in- 
troduced by Representative Frank 
Pallone (D-N.J.), whose district in- 
cludes one of the cities mentioned in 
Brodeur’s article. 

Congressman George Brown (D- 
Calif.), a wily vetenin of \A congresses, 
introduced a more pragmatic appro- 
priation bill to fund ELF research 
w'ithin the Department of Energy. 
Congressman James H. Scheuer (D- 
N.Y.) chaired the hearings on both 
bills. 

Television cameras were rolling in 
the House hearing room as represen- 
tatives from the Department of En- 
ergy, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, and others testified in support 
of the bills. David Nagel, vice president 
of Apple’s Advanced Technology 
Group and a veteran of 19 years of 
federal service at NASA (and the sole 



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Louis Slesin (above) 
HAS CITED Dr, William 
Farland as watering 

DOWN THE ERA. DRAFT 
REPORT 

representative of the personal com- 
puter industty), made a startlingly firm 
statement on behalf of further re- 
search, and spoke in favor of having 
the National Academy of Sciences 
oversee such research. Nagel, or 
Apple’s public-relations speech writ- 
ers, handily avoided associating po- 
tential harm from ELF emissions w'iih 
personal computers in his prepared 
testimony. 

The few sparks that flew came 
when Chairman Scheuer questioned 
Dr. Ross Adey on why the National 
Cancer Institute had allowed its staff 
to testify about ELF matters on behalf 
of electrical power utilities. There was 
potential for real muckraking on the 
topic when Dr. Adey asked how sci- 
entists in the employ of the federal 
government could be allowed to ac- 
cept substantial payments from utili- 
ties and manufacturers in order to 
testify' on behalf of the position of 
public utilities. But no memlx^r of the 
subcommittee pursued that line of 
questioning. 

In related comments to the press 
during the hearing, Louis Slesin w'as 
quoted as citing the actions of Dr. 
William Farland, a noted (and inac- 
cessible) bureaucrat, in w'atering 
down the EPA draft report. Slesin, 
publisher of VDT News, is the long- 
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years covering the topic. 

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Meanwhile, both before 
and following the hear- 
ings, I had numerous 
discussions with Apple’s 
third-party developers. 

RasterOps, Radius, Su- 
perMac, Sigma Designs, 
and MegaGraphics were 
outspoken at an execu- 
tive level with their con- 
cern about the ELF issue. Sigma De- 
signs gained national attention by 
going on record with an announce- 
ment of intent to build the first moni- 
tor with lowered ELF emissions. I be- 
came convinced that the third parties 
genuinely want to develop technology 
that will ameliorate ELF emissions. 
They really want some standard or 
guideline to build toward. Although 
some derision was hurled in my di- 
rection by certain manufacturers’ 
marketing and engineering staffs, ev- 
ery^ one of the presidents — as those 
responsible for the financial well-be- 
ing of their companies — came down 
on the side of building products with 
lowered emissions. 

The Litigation Bogeyman 

August saw^ a notable first: the an- 
nouncement of product litigation on 
the subject, when the Wall Street 
Journal reported that Boeing had 
settled out of court a case brought by 
an employee alleging that his leuke- 
mia was caused by exposure to ELF 
fields. And that is the realm most 
feared by manufacturers, for tort law 
is notoriously uncertain. No manufac- 
turer wants to go into open court w^ith 
a jur>^ listening for months to expert 
testimony (a la Johns-Manville) about 
the possible impact of ELF emissions 
on human health. No matter w'hat the 
conserv'ative opinions are in trade or 
lobbying associations, no company 
wants to try and defend itself against 
such an issue. 

As wath asbestos, concerns with 
ELF emissions center upon long-term 
effects on humans exposed to ELF 
fields. Manufacturers w^orking in the 
absence of a federal standard face 
product liability issues “downstream.” 
They rightfully look tow-ard the ex- 



Representative James 

H. SCHEUER ASKED 
WHAT IT WOULD COST 
ONE STATE TO REMOVE 
ELF EMISSIONS. The 
answer: $5 BILLION 

ecutive branch and its associated 
regulatory agencies for guidance, but 
none has been forthcoming. 

Such policy or guidelines are un- 
likely, for in promulgating such a 
policy, a federal agency would also 
(by implication if not by specific 
regulation) indict the ELF electro- 
magnetic fields emitted by power 
substations and power lines. The im- 
plication is that if there is federal 
regulation on ELF emissions from one 
area of technology, ELF emissions 
from other areas would also have to 
be regulated. During the House hear- 
ings, Representative Scheuer asked 
one of the speakers to estimate w'hat 
it would cost to remove ELF emis- 
sions from areas of likely human im- 
pact in just t^ne state. The answ^er was 
that it would take $5 billion to bur>^ or 
remove power lines, or othemise 
lessen human exposure to ELF fields, 
in Florida alone. 

The congressman pursed his lips 
and expressed concern that with our 
economy under siege from other w^ell- 
planned federal oversight areas such 
as the savings and loan industry, 
Florida might not be able to stand the 
stress of such a burdensome cost right 
now. He then noted for all in the room 
that it would be ver>^ difficult to cal- 
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health — and which costs our society 
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A Call for Action: Please Write 

So there we were. All dressed up and 
nowhere to go. As computer maga- 
zine editors, we ordinarily deal with 
more esoteric issues buried in ela- 
borate technical detail, such as soft- 
ware copyright, graphical user inter- 
faces, and patents on VLSI design 
in silicon. But for the first time in 
my recollection, personal computers 
have become a topic of broad nation- 
al concern. 

We of the groups that make up the 
users of personal computers must all 
act to insure that our concerns are put 
on the agenda of public policymakers. 
For that reason Macworld has taken 
the unprecedented step of adding a 
pair of write-in cards to ever>^ one of 
the over 500,000 copies of this De- 
cember issue. One set of the postcards 
is addressed to Senator Albert Gore, 
Jr., and to Representative Robert A. 
Roe (chairman of the House Commit- 
tee on Science, Space and Technol- 
ogy); the other set is addressed to Dr. 
Allan Bromley, science adviser to the 
president, and to Senator Barbara 
Mikulski (chairwoman of the Senate 
Appropriations Committee that over- 
sees the executive branch and regula- 
tor)' agencies that have responsibility 
for areas of technology such as EI.F 
emi.ssions). 

I encourage you to assist in mov- 
ing this issue further into the public 
eye by filling out the attached cards, 
adding a stamp, and walking them to 
a postbox. You might also consider 
wTiting directly to your own repre- 
sentative and senator to express your 
concern. 

And meanwhile, a new generation 
of children continues to grow up in 
close proximity to personal comput- 
ers. The majority of Macworld read- 
ers are longtime users of personal 
computers. If ELF emissions do prove 
to impact our health, we have already 
been exposed to these fields for years. 

We continue to sit and be con- 
fused as to why multiple government 
reports and many privately supported 
reports that indicate that ELF emis- 
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sions may be a problem must be fol- 
lowed up by additional reports. By 
animal studies. By more hearings, and 
more equivocal results. After some 
thought, and given the slim likelihood 
that some regulator)^ body such as the 
FCC will soon be called upon to mea- 
sure the output of ELF fields from 
personal computer monitors, I sup- 
port David Nagel’s call for a National 
Academy of Sciences-supported 
study. NAS is probably the most ob- 
jective, independent policy-analysis 
group that advises the executive 
branch of our government. 

Perhaps it is possible to address 
the issue of ELF emissions from per- 
sonal computers without the need to 
regulate power line and substation 
emissions, and thus without con- 
fronting an even more effective body 
of lobbyists. 

Here are my recommendations: 

■ Develop an interim standard of the 
lowest practical ELF field strength 
manufacturers can reach, and publish 
this in 1991. 

■ Recognize that researchers funded 
by the electrical power industry may 
be biased. 

■ Fund research with the National 
Academy of Sciences, by the most 
objective panel that can possibly be 
constituted. 

■ Support long-term studies already 
under way such as the Mt. Sinai Hos- 
pital study covering pregnant women. 

■ Centralize responsibility for ELF re- 
search in one federal agency. 

I have added the national science 
adviser to our list of postcard names 
because of an indication earlier in the 
year in Business Week that this ad- 
viser has more access to, and greater 
influence with. President Bush than 
the previous adviser had with Presi- 
dent Reagan. At least Dr. Bromley may 
have the ability to compete with the 
reported lack of interest in this issue 
by Wliite House Chief of Staff John 
Sununu. 

The truth of the matter is that 
someone with clout has to step for- 
ward and become responsible — that 
is, have his or her name associated 
with a controversial position on ELF 
emissions. And that, my friends, is 
unlikely in the Washington, D.C., of 
the 1990s. □ 



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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 







Dear SENATOR GORE, 

I AM WRITING TO EXPRESS MY CONCERN ABOtlf THE FEDERAI, GOVERNMENT’S 
Ij\CK OF ACTIVITy ON THE ISSUE OF ELF (eXFREMEI.Y LOW FREQUENCY) EMIS- 
SIONS FROM PERSONAI, COMPUTER MONITORS. I URGE YOU IN THE STRONGEST 
POSSmu- TERMS TO DlRIiCT THE APPROPRl/\TE GROUPS WIITIIN THE FoOD AND 

Drug Administrahon, the Environmentai. Protection Agency', OSHA, 
NIOSH, /\nd the Department of Energy to develop an interim stan- 
dard that wnx UMIT 'IIIE FJCPOSURE OF USERS OF PERSONAI. COMPUTERS TO 
ELF EMISSIONS. 



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ADDRESS 



CHY STATE ZIP 



Dear SENATOR M1KUI.SKI, 

1 AM WRIIING TO EXPRF.SS MY CONCERN ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMEFTT’S 
UCK OF ACTIVITY ON THE ISSUE OF ELF (EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY) F..MIS- 
SIONS FROM PERSONAI, COMPUTER MONITORS. I URGE YOU IN THE STRONGES'T 
POSSIBIJi TERMS TO DIRECT THE APPROPRIATE GROUPS WITHIN THE FoOD AND 

Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, OSHA, 
NIOSH, AND THE Department of Energy to develop an interim stan- 
dard THAT WILL UMIT THE EXPOSURE OF USERS OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO 
ELF FjMissions. 



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LETTERS 




If You Want It Buy It! 

A s a Mac developer who 
relies on software sales 
for my income, I ask the 
Mac community, do you 
buy the software that you 
use, or do you simply copy 
it from your friends? 

Please consider your 
actions! Software develop- 
ers have to make a living, 
and if the Mac market 
doesn’t improve, switching 
to the more lucrative IBM 
market seems like the only 
way to go. Yes, the Mac is 
the better machine by far, 
but please support the de- 
velopers by actually pur- 
chasing the software that 
you use, 

Roland Gustafsson 
San Mateo, California 

Parallel Onlines 

D avid Pogue’s experience 
and opinions of the 
various online services 
(“Life Online,” September 
1990] paralleled mine. I 
have access to GEnie, 
CompuServe, Medline, 
AMANET, Dow Jones, and 
Knowledge Index (Dialog). 

Of these, the easiest 
to use is Knowledge Index. 
It has an excellent manual 
and easy-to-learn com- 
mands that work well with 
all the databases. One can 
access them, find the de- 
sired information, and log 
off without running up a 
large bill. 

The major problem 
with online serv^ices is a lack 
of standardization of com- 
mands. In CompuServ^e you 
must know certain com- 
mands to get to databases, 
other commands to move 



around within a database, 
and so forth. Using the 
menus is vciy slow and in- 
volves much repetition. 
•Meanwhile, the clock con- 
tinues to tick, adding 
charges to your bill. Com- 
puServe’s manuals are also 
complicated. My experi- 
ence in tiying to locate — 
and get infonnation on — a 
file in a CompuSen'e library^ 
has been the same as 
Pogue’s. 

If online services are 
ever going to appeal to a 
large segment of the popu- 
lation, they are going to 
have to become more user 
friendly. It’s essential to 
have industiy standards for 
commands so they’ll be us- 
able within all seivices and 
databases. I have neither 
the lime nor the desire to 
get out a manual each time 
1 want to access a database. 
Offering sc^ftware specific to 
an online sei*vice does not 



address the (:)roblem — it 
just means more money for 
the senice. Standardization 
w'ould eliminate the need 
for software fixes and 
patches (and more money 
spent by the consumer). In 
turn, more people would 
be likely to use the seiwices 
and thus increase their 
revenues. 

Joe L Brown 1 1 
Jackson, Tennessee 

Online Rate Changes 

Y our well-written article 
“Life Online,” which re- 
viewed seven major online 
seivices, suggests what we 
at Delphi have known all 
along: Delphi is not the 
largest online service but 
rather, one of the friendlier 
services to use. We al.so feel 
that Delphi provides the 
best value for the con- 
sumer, and now our rates 
have become even more 
competitive. 



Corrections 

The following features are 
available in Microsoft Ex- 
cel CTop of the Charts/' 
July 1990): lines without 
arrows, overlay charts, hi- 
lo charts, and data links 
with graphs or extetiial 
files. 

Canned Art: Clip An for 
the .Macintosh (Peachpit 
Press, 1990), mentioned in 
"Mac Art Mart" (October 
1990) was not listed in 
Where to Buy. Peachpit 
Press’s numbers are 800/ 
283-9444 and 415/527-8555. 

The Eleclrotiic Color 
Splitter, from MicroSearch 
fNevv Products, yz//v 1990), 
retails Jbr $199.95. 



As of September 1990, 
Delphi began offering two 
membership options: the 
20/20 Advantage Plan, 
which provides 20 hours of 
usage for $20 per month, 
and the Basic Membership 
Plan, with an hourly rate of 
$6 and a $5.95 monthly fee, 
with the first hour free. 
Robert C. Adams 
General Videotex 
Corporation 
via AppleLink 

Most of the other online sen/ices 
have also made important 
changes since "Life Online" ap- 
peared. CompuServe's Informa- 
tion Manager, an inexpensive 
program that gives the text- 
based service an intuitive, 
graphic Mac interface, is now 
available. Prodigy now offers 
faster performance for hard drive 
owners, more text per screen. 
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and new services, and the com- 
pany hopes to add downloading 
capabilities soon. Prodigy's 
monthly rate has increased to 
$12.95 for unlimited usage (one- 
year subscribers pay the equiva- 
lent of $9.95 per month; two-year 
members only $8.33). GEnie has 
greatly reduced and simplified its 
pricing scheme: $4.95 per month 
buys unlimited off-peak connect 
time, with access to the majority 
of online features. A new lower 
hourly rate ($6| is billed only for 
time spent in the computing fo- 
rums and software libraries. (Peak 
rates remain at $18 per hour.) 
America Online has overhauled 
its bulletin board system, mak- 
ing it easier to spot and respond 
to messages you haven't yet 
read. — Ed. 

MIDI Oversight 

G etting Started with 
MIDI" in the August issue 
mentioned several very 



good MIDI secjuencers for 
the Macintosh but failed to 
mention RhapscKly by Green 
Oak Software (619/434- 
0823). It compares favomlily 
with the high-end setjuenc- 
ers coveretl by the article, 
but at only $150, Rhap.socly 
is a real bargain. 

Rhapsody is very reliable 
(bug free) and has never 
been copy (protected. Green 
Oak provides excellent sup- 
port and has upgraded the 
program twice in the last six 
months. The latest version 
(2.1) contains over 20 new 
features and additions. 
Dwiiiht Stewart 
Myrtle lieacb, 

South Carolhict 

Judgment Call 

I read and enjoyed your 
“Word Processor Olym- 
pics" (September 1990) but 
to my great surprise, it did 



not contain any judgment 
criteria based on fejitures per 
dollar. Asbton-Tate’s Full- 
Write Prtjfe.ssional 1.1 can be 
liad at most mail-order com- 
panies for about $45. The 
overall Olympics winner, 
Microsoft Word 4.0, is about 
$250 at the same discount 
houses. In keeping with 
Met Cl VO rki ’s va I u e- m i n d ed 
tradition, “Word Processor 
Olympic.s" should have men- 
tioned the rather huge price 
difibrence between the two. 
FullWrite should at least 
have been awarded another 
gold metlal and proper rec- 
ognition in the “Winners’ 
Circle" on page 179. 

Geoffrey // AVv/g 
Painesvi/le, Ohio 

You’re right on both counts. Such 
a large price discrepancy should 
have been pointed out. and there 
was an error in the "Winner's 



Circle" chart — FullWrite (not 
WriteNow) placed second in 
overall medals. — Ed. 

Testing 1, 2. 3 

A n incorrect statement re- 
garding hard-drive testing 
procedures appeared in 
“Surveying the Shakeout" 
(Cons/) i cuo us Consii mer, 
September 1990). In dis- 
cussing vendors that inspect 
100 percent of their incom- 
ing mechanisms, the column 
reads, “Microtech Interna- 
tional, on the other hand, 
tests only a random sample 
of 25 percent of its drives, 
unless a problem is found." 

Fveiy Microtech Inter- 
national drive is 100 percent 
tested before it is packaged. 
Microtech’s product-quality 
control and assurance is 
performed in a three-step 
pnjcess: (1) Approximately 
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The Iladius THiutron 
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and software enhance- 
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on screen is the same as what you'll get from your 
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25 percent of all incoming 
drive mechanisms and other 
components are tested to 
ensure they meet specifica- 
tions. If they do not, the en- 
tire shipment is refused. 
(2) The components then 
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sembly process, where the 
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While we understand 
how, from your conversa- 
tions with Microiech Inter- 
national personnel, you 
came to make the statement 
that you did, the net result 
is that the statement is not 
accurate. 

Michael J. Zanoni 
Ramni Public Relatiom 
Cranford, New Jersey 

It Didn't Sound Right 

T he article “Best Buys in 
Low-Capacity Drives” 
[September 1990] contains a 
sidebar that measures the 
noise level of the various 
drives tested. Its introduc- 
tory' statement incorrectly 
reads “For every' 3-decibel 



increase, humans perceive 
sound to be twice as loud.” 
It should read “For every 10- 
decibel increa.se . . .” The 3- 
decibel increase refei*s to the 
sound intensity, not to the 
perceived loudness of the 
sound. 

Donald D. Snyder 
Professor of Physics 
Indiana University 
South Bend, Indiana 

Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for 
setting the record straight. — Ed. 

A Little Help from Macworld 

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One of the benefits of the Radius Pivot is that it’s 
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Our PixelView II works with the Macintosh Plus, SE, 
SE30. and any Macintosh n. The Pivot does loo, but 
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Unlike Radius, you can purchase v^ur PixelView 
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78 


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Briia Meng and the editors, 
for bringing me this article. 
You’ve just won over an- 
other new loyal reader. 

Matt Lege?’ 

Arlington, Virginia 

LightFax Update 

W e appreciated the in- 
clusion of our LightFax 
9624 fax modem in your 
article “Fax-Modem Influx” 
in the August 1990 issue 
but would like to update 
some information that has 
changed since then. We are 
currently shipping version 
2.0 of the LightFax Macin- 
tosh software, which pro- 
vides true background op- 
eration when sending or 
receiving a flix. The modem 
module, which allows the 
LightFax to be used as a 
2400-baud modem, now 
comes installed in every 
UghtFax, at no extra charge. 



The LightFax 9624 — now 
compatible with AppleShare 
and TOPS network.s — sells 
for $399 including cable and 
software. 

Calvin Smith 
Co?)jj)uter Frie?jcls 
Portland, Orego?i 

Mac Loyalist in a DOS World 

I have used iVIicrosoft Ex- 
cel and Word since they 
came out, and 1 have been 
pleased u(3 until now. I do 
not really like using Mi- 
crosoft jDroducts, mainly 
because Microsoft is not a 
Mac-only outfit (it is actually 
the antithesis of one). Bur it 
made some very good 
products with little or no 
real competition. 

I have tried to find a 
word processor with the 
features and speed of Word 
but couldn’t, although More 
3.0 and Nisus arc coming 



close. In fact, More 3 0 is so 
good, 1 may just use it as my 
woi'cl processt)r. As for Excel 
and spreadsheets, well, I 
tried Wingz but the interface 
was hard to get used to, so I 
continued using Excel. I re- 
cently encountered a “fea- 
ture” that so infuriated me 
that I have finally decided to 
wean myself of Excel, and 
hopefully, of all other Mi- 
crosoft products. 

To explain this feature, I 
have to give a little back- 
ground. The Mac uses a 
1904-based clock, while DOS 
machines use a 1900-based 
one (programs like Excel 
calculate dates based on the 
number of days from the 
base date). Well, Excel gives 
you the option of using ei- 
ther 1904 or 1900 as the base 
date. So here’s the problem: 
when importing a text file 
created from a database or 



another program that saves 
dates in MM/T)DAT format, 
Mac Excel automatically 
changes the default to the 
1900-based clock. This 
means that all the dates ap- 
pear four years in the [3ast 
(for example, 7/5/90 wtjuld 
appear as 7/5/86). 1 thought, 
OK, I’ll just call Microsoft and 
report the bug. 

Here’s what infuriated 
me. Microsoft’s technical 
help line informed me that 
the program did this on 
purpose, because the com- 
pany’s market research 
showed that more people 
imported files created on 
DOS-based computers than 
on Mac-based ones, and Mi- 
crosoft chose to accommo- 
date the DOS users! When I 
told them I’ve been using 
Excel for four or five years 
and never imported a DOS 
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file, and asked why they 
changed Excel, since it 
worked fine before, they in- 
formed me that the number 
of users determines which 
way the program works. 
Well, given the number of 
users there are in the DOS 
world, I know which way 
Microsoft will gear further 
development. 

So now I’m searching for 
a Mac-oriented company 
with a good spreadsheet. 
Ashton-Tate was never in the 
running and Informix’s 
Wingz is now a Windows 3.0 
product, so they’re suspect 
too. I wonder how long be- 
fore they, too, ignore the 
Mac market? 

Allan Marcus 
Cupertino, California 

Valued Verbatim 

ormally I dislike inter- 
views that appear in 



technical publications, but 
the interview with James Von 
Ehr [president and CEO of 
Altsys Corporation) in your 
September Verbatim is truly 
an exception to that rule. 
The interview showed Von 
Ehr to be both intelligent 
and eloquent. I thoroughly 
enjoyed it. 

As Jeny Bcjrrell conveyed 
Von Ehr’s responses, I si- 
lently began to root for the 
underdog; then I cheered as 
Altsys became a winning 
team. I understand Post- 
Script (and the PostScript 
Type 1 versus TrueType font 
technology battles) a little 
better after reading this 
piece. 

The stoiy (3f Altsys ’s suc- 
cess is truly inspiring. It 
shows that if you have the 
talent, desire, courage, and 
tenacity to develop your 
ideas (whether it be soft- 



ware, hardware, or intellec- 
tual property), there is room 
out there for you to succeed. 
I hope to see more inter- 
views of this quality in the 
future. 

Mark A Stover 
Davidsville, Pennsylvania 

Leave Levy Alone 

( don’t know Steven Lev>^ 
personally, but come on, 
guys, lay off him. Every' is- 
sue is full of complaints 
about Steve. Steve did this, 
Steve did that. If I were 
Steve’s ego, I’d look like 
hell. Anybody can blather on 
about this and that, but Levy 
makes it funny. 

After reading his column 
about the nuPrometheus 
League (September) , I found 
myself frantically looking 
for a calendar to confirm 
that it was not April. I guess 
I always root for the under- 



dog. But I am sure that 
if FBI Agent Baxter had 
enough time, he could dis- 
cern which one was the 
Vise-grip. And I know some 
day he will catch all the 
members of the “evil” pros- 
thetic group. (If Color 
QuickDraw can get me into 
Apple, where will 32-bit 
QuickDraw get me?) 

Michael J. Sanders 
Christopher, Illinois 



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engravings, some of which 
he scans in and colorizes on 
the Mac. For “The Santa 
File," our poetic Christ mas- 
gift feature, Craig created a 
richly detailed illustration 
that adds a touch of high 
tech to an old-fashioned- 
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Tools: Mac 11 (SMB R.AM, 
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them into the main collage. 

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little arm twisting. In the 
original engraving, the 
man’s right arm was up- 
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the arm of the cliair and the 
hand to rest on the shape 
(that would later become 
the keyboard) he'd jolaced 
in the man’s lap. 

To niake a copy of the 
arm without leaving a hole 
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.1. n early 1988 the top executives of Apple Com- 
puter had many priorities for improving the Macintosh product line. 
Making a truly affordable color iMac did not top that list. But fortu- 
nately for them — and for us — two unheralded engineers realized 



that chere would be considerable 
clamor for such an item. They re- 
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that could be produced at a much 
more modest cost than the current 
rage, the Ilex. The result of their 
lalx)rs, as well as the good efforts of 
literally dozens of Apple workers, is 
the Macintosh LC, described in detail 
elsewhere in these pages. 

But it was not ea.sy. It was certainly 
not easy. The road to the Macintosh 
LC was to be pocked with detours and 
twists, treacherous obstacles and 
tempting exits. A stark recitation of the 
various code names for the project 
gives an indication of the shimmying 
course: Charm, Strange, Spin, and, fi- 
nally, the eponymous Klsie. It took 
rest)lve, a steady vision, and even some 
judicious insubordination t(3 bring the 
vehicle home, ultimately parking it in 
the space marked Vicioiy Circle. 

Victoiy, however, was the furthest 
thing from the minds of Paul Baker 
and I I. L. Cheung in the early days of 
1989. Management had just axed their 
pet project, a color computer called 
Spin. They had finished the prototype 
around Christmas and had eagerly 
demonstrated it to any Api^le execu- 
tive they could collar. They had even 




The Mac LC toam (standing from loft to right): H. L. 
Dyor, Paul Bakor, and James Jatezynski. Bill Goins 

gone to Apple’s production facilities 
in Singapore to look into the poten- 
tial cost of manufacturing the machine. 
But though Apple’s brain trust gener- 
ally agreed the computer was a fine 
one, Spin was deemed not enough of 
a change from previous models to 
justify' a go-ahead. Baker and Cheung 
had a dead project. 

Baker and Cheung 

It was a tough blow for two veteran 
Apple hands. Baker, now 35, had 



worked for Apple since 1979, and 
had spent five years as a key player 
on the Lisa team before leaving the 
company tt) work for the Macintosh’s 
original designer, Jef Raskin, at a 
company called Information Appli- 
ance. When that experience reached 
its end. Baker re- 
turned to Apple, 
hoping to finally as- 
sociate himself with 
a hit product. H. L. 
Cheung, two years 
younger, had been 
the ninth employee 
Apple hired in Sin- 
gapore; after immi- 
grating to Cupertino 
in 1987, he headed 
the Apple ll-family 
design team. Then 
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side, w'here the ac- 
tion was. 

Since returning 
to Apple, Baker had 
been working on a project code- 
named XO, putting some of the Mac 
SB’s features on a chip set to be ret- 
rofitted into the Mac Plus. Cheung, the 
manager of Baker’s team, was work- 
ing on two stripped-down modular 
Macs called Green Jade and White 
Jade, 'fhose projects fizzled, but the 
vision behind them made sense: 
quality Macs for lower cost. 

The idea resonated with each 
engineer’s personal orientatic^ns: 
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Baker and Cheung worked on the 
computer in off-houi*s during the early 
months of 1988. Eventually, of course, 
the project needed approval from 
above, so that the custom chips could 
be designed and manufactured. It was 
at one of these reviews that the ma- 
chine — then called Spin — spun off 
course. The superiors decided to .scrap 
Baker’s idea to use a low-cost moni- 
tor; they dictated instead that the 
computer use the .same video scheme 
being implemented in the high-end 
Macintosh llci, then being readied for 
market. This would mean that Spin 
would require the powerful — and 
costly — 68030 micropriKesst >r. 

At that time, Baker temporarily left 
the project to work on yet another 
high-end Mac, the Ilx. He returned, in 
October 1988, in time to ready proto- 
types of Spin. The computer looked 
like an Apple llos with the power, and 
the same slick high-resolution color, 
of a full-size Mac II. Twenty were pro- 
duced. Baker and Cheung distributed 
them throughout the company "to 
anyone who would take it,” says Paul 
Baker. Yet the project was canceled. 
The low-cost color Mac, which by that 
time was not so terribly low-cost, 
seemed a fatality. 

Spin Control 

If that w'as the darkest hour for the 
project, dawn was cjuick in arriving. 
The fortunes of the mother cc^mpany 
were flagging, and the myriad critics 
of Apple Computer w'ere quick to 
identify the cau.se — its computers cost 
too much. .Almost coincidentally with 
the squashing of Spin, John Sculley 
w'as promising a crowd of hostile sttKk 
analysts that Apple would one day 
dazzle its customers with a budget al- 
ternative to its current offerings. What 
he didn't say was that Apple had just 
snuffed its most viable low'-cosi 
.Macintosh development effort. Fortu- 
nately, the project could be revived — 
but now' that ever><one would judge 
the computer by its price tag, the cost 
would have to be bnnight dt)W'n con- 
siderably. The Spin team was sum- 
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Jean-Louis Gassee to discuss what ad- 
justments would be made to make 
Spin a truly low-cost computer. 

Speaking first at the meeting was 
Bill Goins, a former Dynamac engi- 
neering manager who had joined 
Apple some months before to manage 
the Spin project. Armed with some 
prop.s — cheap color MS-DOS clones 
like the Tandy — he outlined various 



design alternatives. Since you couldn’t 
have all the features of previous Macs 
at a fraction of the price, he argued, 
some beloved features of the Mac II 
would have to go. 

Jean-Louis Gassee had his own 
point to make. Leaving his seat and 
literally getting down on his knees, he 
implored the engineers: Please! .Make 
it color! So the low-cost Mac would 



be color. Befitting the project’s new 
high priority within Apple, the team 
was Ix^efed up considerably. There was 
soon a squad of engineers and de- 
signers who would lay out the circuit 
board, progmm the new ROMs, design 
the case, and perform the dozens of 
other jobs required in the creation of 
a new machine. But, as Bill Goins later 
recalled, “First we had to have The 
Plan.” A controlling vision that would 
dictate what to put in and what to 
leave out. 

In early 1989, The Plan was to cut 
costs to the bone. As a result, the pro- 
spective computer (now code-named 
Elsie) began to shape up as a kind of 
low-rent color Mac, with the jDenny- 
ante Apple lie as its role model. It's 
almost shocking to contemplate now, 
but the prototype they produced that 
spring resembled a small one-piece 
box like the Apple lie with a built-in 
keyboard. It had a single 800K floppy 
drive that could be used without a 
hard drive, since much of tlie Mac 
system software would be embedded 
in the ROMs. The power supj:)ly was 
lodged on the wall plug. It included a 
single megabyte of RAM. The machine 
would be able to output only 4-bit 
color, a crude alternative to the Mac- 
intosh 8-bit standard. Powering the 
computer was a simple 68000 chip, the 
same one found in the Mac Plus. 

This version could indeed be pro- 
duced cheaply. T’he problem was that 
it wasn’t a veiy good computer. T he 
processor was overmatched — it took 
aeons to draw the color. Obviously, a 
more powerful processor was re- 
quired, as well as more storage. It was 
a tough decision, because the more 
powerful the processor, the more ex- 
pensive the computer would become. 
Ultimately a solution evolved: there 
would be more than one low'-cost Mac. 
Around April, a team was spun off to 
work on the original Spin design, to 
create what would become the Mac- 
intosh ILsi. And a few months later 
another team would break off to pro- 
duce the black-and-white Macintosh 
Classic, using the 68000 processor. 
(Some of Paul Baker’s XO work found 
its way into this computer.) The LC 
itself would navigate a middle course, 
using the Motorola 68020 chip. All the 
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“The Plan was to do it without a hard 
drive. But it really isn’t a Mac without 
a hard drive,” admits Baker. 

Since low-cost manufacturing and 
components were essential, Baker and 
the other engineers practiced a frugal, 
almost miserly form of design. At one 
point, there was a furious controversy 
over whether a plug should terminate 
in a male or female connector, the 
distaff alternative being chosen to save 
a few cents. Perfectly good compo- 
nents used in previous Macs required 
a redesign so they could be produced 
at a slightly lower cost. Making a new 
keyboard from scratch saved $2.50 a 
unit. And do you wonder why there’s 
no way to hook an external floppy disk 
drive to the LC? Hey, a connector 
would have cost $1.50 per unit. 

While such vigilance could slice a 
few dollars off the production cost, 
the real savings came from redesign- 
ing the system from the ground up. 
“W'e learned something ver\^ impor- 
tant about cost reduction,” says 
Cheung. “You can’t do it by eliminat- 
ing features.” 

In fact, the team was eager to in- 
troduce entirely new features into the 
Macintosh family. The strategy in these 
cases was to build the feature, get it 
to work, and only then seek approval. 
“The key to getting something ac- 
cepted is to make it a fait accompli,” 
explains Paul Baker. A prime example 
is the voice input capability now^ in- 
cluded in all the new Macs. \Xdien en- 
gineer Eric Harslem suggested it, ev- 
ery^one agreed It was a neat idea. A 
custom sound chip was designed, and 
the LC team implemented a scheme 
whereby the user can simply pick up 
the mike (included with each com- 
puter) and verbally annotate docu- 
ments. “Wlien [the executives] heard 
it, they were convinced,” says Baker. 

Lowering the Boom 

As the project stretched on, the Elsie 
team began feeling the pressure. Af- 
ter all, consensus had it that the fate 
of Apple depended on the success of 
these low-cost Macs. People w'ho 
wandered into project manager Bill 
Goins’s office would be startled, even 
unhinged, to see a chait indicating that 
these new computers were destined 
to replace the Mac SE, the Mac Plus, 
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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 





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N ow you can have everything you ever 
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Introducing the lowest priced laser 
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Finally, a revolutionary printer at a 
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Personal Desktop Printing. 



Three years of research and 
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Features such as a silent “sleep’* 
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The Highest Quality Printing. 



Because PLP II includes 6 outline 
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These outline fonts, combined with 
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in producing perfect documents from 
such applications as PageMaker,® Wordf 
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Even More Powen PLP IIS. 



For diose who demand even more 
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With the PLP IIS, you get all the 
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minute, making it the perfect solution for 
anyone printing a high volume of output. 

You also get one megabyte of RAM, 
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’Price rcHccts $100 factory-direct rebate when purchased from an authorized GCC dealer or directly from GCC throiif{h January 31, 1991. 
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And finally, with PLP IIS, you get 
a very powerful font library. In addition 
to the core set of 22 Bitstream® outline 
fonts, you also get a font package called 
Font Plus^ which means you’ll have over 
40 fonts to choose from. 



Dealer or Direct: Your Choice. 



GCC has made acquiring your new 
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Simply call us toll-free, and we’ll 
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A Meg of memory 

used to cost more than spare 
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And we also carry the 64-pin 
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1330 


Freehand 2.02 


329. 


7697 


Letter Writer Plus 


. 52. 


7616 M.Y.O.B.2.0 


145. 


7467 


Preprint 1.0 


329. 


7694 


Address Book Plus 


. 52. 


lArTIMESLIPS ... 30dayMBG 




7088 


PageMaker 4.0 


499. 


8028 


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. 87. 


2986 Timeslipslll2.0 


195. 


8054 


Design Team (PM, FH & PrePrint) . 889. 


7698 


Fast Forms 2.0 


105. 


★T/Maker ... 30dayMBG 






Altsys 




'Ar Preferred Publishers ... 30dayMBG 


7923 WriteNow2.2/Grammatik Mac. . . . 


117. 


5425 


Art Importer 2.0 


75. 


4781 


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. 52. 


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6499 


Metamorphosis 1 .5 


75. 


7650 


Direct Mail 1 .0.2 


. 52. 


7964 North American Facsimile Book . . 


269. 


1195 


Fontographer3.1 


249. 








★WordPerfect ... GOdayMBG 










T/Maker ... 30dayMBG 
7923 WriteNowZ.Z-Tht best value in word 
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Award winning word processor now includes 
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^ArZedcor ... GOdayMBG 

6742 Desk 1.0 229. 

GRAPHICS & DESIGN 

li^Aapps ... 30dayMBG 



7117 


DigiVideo 1 .0 (black & white) .... 


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7114 


DigiVideo Color 


639. 


★Abbott Systems ... 30 day MBG 


8052 


Cheshire 1.0 

Adobe Systems 


, 63. 




Adobe Type Library 


call 


6957 


Adobe Type Reunion 1.0 


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5750 


Adobe Type Manager 2.0 


, 55. 


6053 


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109. 


6156 


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159. 


6098 


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. 59. 


6985 


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, 89. 




Adobe Type Set 1 , 2 or 3 


call 


8042 


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199. 


1137 


Adobe Illustrator 3.0 


349. 




Adobe Systems 

1137 Illustrator S.O-DiTcctj on-screen entering & 
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lAr Baseline Publishing ... SOdayMBG 

7784 MacCheesel.05 57. 

Bright Star Technology 

6093 interFACEI.O 249. 

Broderbund Software 

1427 The Print Shop 1.3.1 35. 

6281 TypeStyler1.5 115. 

li^CE Software ... 60dayMBG 

7481 Amazing Paint 1.0 65. 

Claris 

1123 MacPaint II 2.0 92. 

1117 MacDrawll 1.1 (w/ATM) 289. 

8007 Claris CAD 2.0 649. 

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1668 CA-Cricket Graph 1.3.2 125. 

Ar Creative Software ... 30dayMBG 

6645 EasyColor Paint 1.1 45. 

A' Custom Applications ... 30dayMBG 
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6517 Freedom of Press 3.0 255. 

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6095 DeltaGraph 1.5 109. 

^Deneba Software ... 30dayMBG 

6365 UltraPaintl.O 125. 

1769 Canvas 2.1 189. 



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2417 MacDraft Z. f-Powerful precision drawing 
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include advanced text handling on-line symbol 
libraries, layers, Bezier and spline curves, 
dimensioning and more $279. 



A'Dream Maker ... 30dayMBG 

MacGallery fPg/nf or HyperCarca!) ea. $27. 

Cliptures: Business 1 or 2 ea. 69. 

7684 Cliptures: Sports 3 69. 

Dubl-CIIck Software 

WetPaint Clip-Art ea. 42. 

lAr Electronic Arts ... 30dayMBG 

7736 Studio/8 & Studio/1 Bundle 295. 

8056 Studio/32 449. 

*AFarallon Computing ... 30dayMBG 

6770 MacRecorder Voice Digitizer 89. 

2199 MacRecorder 2.01 159. 

Ar Foundation Publishing ... GOdayMBG 

Comic People or Kid Stuff .... ea. 21 . 

6728 Comic Strip Factory 1 .6 37. 

^Generic Software ... GOdayMBG 

4319 Generic CADD Level 1 1.1 93. 

7454 Generic CADD 1.0 375. 

Innovative Data Design 

2417 MacDraft 2.1 279. 

4707 Dreams 1.1 319. 




Paracomp 

7441 SwivW 3D Proftssioml i.O-Tht best selling 

24bit 3D program available $439. 

7839 RItnMakr f .0-Features full animation, 
anti-aliasing and transparency for multimedia 
presentations 439. 



Letraset 

2619 ImageStudio 1.5 139. 

2621 Ready Set Go! 4.5A 165. 

4709 LetraStudiol.5 275. 

6300 FontStudio 1.0 359. 

6302 DesignStudio 1.0 489. 

6301 ColorStudio 1 .0 649. 

lAr Linguist's Software ... GOdayMBG 

Over 100 language fonts call 

MacKanji 6.0 or LaserVietnamese ea. 79. 
il^MacroMInd ... 30dayMBG 

7712 MacroMind CD-ROM 125. 

6159 MacroMind Accelerator 125. 

5087 MacroMind Director 2.0 439. 

^Mainstay ... 30dayMBG 

7714 Capture 3.0 45. 

'A’MIcroFrontier ... 30dayMBG 

7886 ENHANCE 1.0.3 239. 

ArMIcroMaps ... 30dayMBG 

7554 hAagAn (Paint) 41. 

MapArt (EPS) or MapArt (PICT) 99. 

A'MIcrosoft ... 30dayMBG 

2878 PowerPoint 2.01 245. 

NEC 

Image Gallery, Photo Gallery, Type 
Gallery PS fCD-RO/W f///es;. . . ea. 246. 
6625 Clip-Art 3D ('CD-/?0/WJ 246. 




Electronic Alts ... 30dayMBC 
8056 Studio/SZ-32hit technology for unlimited 
aeative expression. Pantone Matching System. 
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Olduval 

7120 VideoPaintl.O 279. 

PANTONE 

7466 Process Color Imaging Guide 49. 

Paracomp 

7421 DrawToolsl.0 62. 

7728 SwivelArtl.0 82. 

4597 Swivel 3D 1.1 295. 

7441 Swivel 3D ProfoGsional 1.0 439. 

5028 Model Shop 1.1 375. 

7839 FilmMakerl.0 439. 

'A Preferred Publishers ... SOdayMBG 

7828 Exposure Pro 69. 

8055 Screenshot 31. 

Quark 

7612 QuarkXPress 3.0 529. 

Somak Software ... SOdayMBG 

7993 LaserArt CD-ROM Vol. 2 62. 

Softview 

7499 if.X Forms Designer 1 .0 169. 

^Solutions Jnc. ... GOdayMBG 

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Somak Software ... 30dayMBG 

7434 LaserArt CD-ROM Volume 1 62. 

lAr Springboard ... 30dayMBG 

3530 Certificate Maker 2.0 22. 

4497 Top Honors 1.01 57. 

4500 Springboard Publisher II 2.0 107. 

Strata 

7773 Stratavision 3D 369. 

7772 Stratavision 3D/Renderman Bundle . 999. 

Strategic Mapping 

6518 ATLAS*MapMaker4.5 369. 

'A’SuperMac Tech. ... GOdayMBG 

5625 PixelPaint Professional 2.0 465. 

3G Graphics 

3942 Images with Impact: Graphics 1 ... 50. 

4583 Images: Business 1 or Accents. . ea. 65. 

lATimeworks ... 30dayMBG 

7115 Publish Itl Easy 2.0 145. 

5908 Publish It! 1.2 222. 

★T/Maker ... GOdayMBG 

3633 ClickArt Christian Images 39. 

7424 EPS Animals & Nature 82. 

^WayzataTech. ... GOdayMBG 
7966 U.S. Government Seals (CD-ROM) . 49. 

6576 Vietnam Remembered (CD-ROM). . 69. 

6370 Quick An (CD-ROM) 175. 





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Custom Applications ... 30dayMBG 



6517 Fmhftt of Press 3.i?-Brings PostScript printing 
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devices. New features include Adobe Type 1 

support and supports all Macs $255. 

8037 Freedom of Press Light (17 fonts) 56. 

★Wildflower ... SOdayMBG 

6512 SnapJot2.0 32. 

'A'Zedcor ... 60dayMBG 

3986 DeskPaint& DeskDraw3.0 115. 

TOOLS OF THE TRADE 

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Advanced Software ... SOdayMBG 

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Affinity Microsystems ... SOdayMBG 

1016 Tempo I1 1.2.4 93. 

7835 Tempo II Plus 105. 

^Aladdin Systems ... SOdayMBG 

6169 Shortcut 1.1 46. 

7504 Programmer's Assistant 1 .0 57. 

6740 Stuffit Deluxe 1.5 63. 

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5100 SuperCard1.5 199. 

A' ASD Software ... SOdayMBG 
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7422 FileGuard Office Pack 2.5 ^5 userj. 349. 

7423 FileGuard Office Pack 2.5 ('tOuserj 579. 
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7783 INIT Manager 35. 

A Berkeley Systems ... SOdayMBG 

5737 After Dark 2.0 22. 

1541 Stepping Out II 2.02 49. 

Borland 

1511 Turbo Pascal 1.1 68. 

ABravo ... SOdayMBG 

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A' Casady & Greene ... SOdayMBG 

2269 QuickDEX1.4D 34. 

7443 A.M.E. 1.1 159. 

ACE Software ... BOdayMBG 
4689 MockPackage Plus Utilities 4.4 ... . 31. 

1727 CalendarMaker3.0 31. 

6278 DiskTop4.0 63. 



7518 Alarming Events 1.0 $85. 

8024 QuicKeys2.0 94. 

ACentral Point ... SOdayMBG 

5040 Copy II Mac 7.2 23. 

5041 Mac Tools Deluxe 1.0 75. 

ArConnectix ... SOdayMBG 

7830 Maxima 89. 

6123 Virtual 2.03 ('/brSe3a//cx.//x.(&//c/; 115. 
6122 Virtual 2.03 (for Mac II, ind. PMMU) . 188. 

A^Dantz Development ... SOdayMBG 
5255 Retrospect 1.2 148. 

7945 Retrospect Remote 265. 

7946 Remote ('70Pac/cJ 148. 

A^Design Science ... SOdayMBG 

7887 MathType2.0 89. 

ADigitalk ... SOdayMBG 

5166 SmallTalk/VMacl.1 124. 

Dubl-CIIck Software 

7974 ClickChange 41. 

1824 Calculator Construction Set 2.05. . . 45. 




Zedcor ... 60dayMBG 
6742 Desk f. 0-Seven powerful DAs. Word 
processor; spreadsheet; database; communica- 
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3986 DeskPaitu DeskDraw 3.0-Get paint or 



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A' Fifth Generation ... SOdayMBG 

4287 PYRO! 4.0 (screen saverj 25. 

3955 Suitcase I1 1.2.6 49. 

7700 File Director 1 .0 82. 

FastBack II 2.5 or DiskLock 2.0 .. . 118. 

3383 SuperSpool 5.0 58. 

3382 SuperLaserSpool2.02 87. 

3378 SuperLaserSpool 5-Pack 2.02 ... 289. 
A Foundation Publishing ... SOdayMBG 

6701 HyperSpellerl.O 29. 

Hyperpress Publishing 

4233 Icon Factory 1.0 45. 

ICOM Simulations 

4084 On Cue 1.3 35. 

5681 HyperTMONI.0 57. 

4085 TMON 2.8.4 86. 

Individual Software 

4719 101 Scripts & Buttons HyperCard 1 .2 35. 

A Insight Development ... SOdayMBG 

6171 MacPrint1.22 94. 




ASD Software ... 30dayMBG 

7085 FikGmd Extended 2.5-Protea your hard 
drives, applications, files/folders (including system 
folder) from unauthorized access, deletion, 
and/or illegal copying. Now with system usage 



audit trail. 5 & 10 user also available $ 145. 



A' JAM Software ... SOdayMBG 

6089 Smart Alarms w/Appt. Diary 3.0.1 . . 63. 

6088 Smart Alarms 3.0 (7-4 6/serSy) 125. 

6087 Smart Alarms 3.0 (5-8 users) 187. 

ArKent Marsh Ltd. ... SOdayMBG 

5457 QuickLock2.0 34. 

2591 The NightWatch 1.03 85. 

6134 MacSafell 107. 

A' Kiwi Software ... SOdayMBG 

6267 KiwiEnvelopes! 3.0 33. 

7445 KiwiFinder Extender 1.0 65. 

Loop Software ... SOdayMBG 

5442 PictureBook3.2 39. 

A^Magic Software ... SOdayMBG 

7267 AutoSavell 1.1 28. 

7268 POWERiconsl.O 39. 

7270 Backmaticl.1 50. 




Portfolio Systems ... SOdayMBG 

6916 Qw^ZO-For Filofax, Day-Time^ or any 
personal organizer, manages & prints addresses. 
Labels & rolodex cards tool includes free DA. $57. 
7992 DynoPaff. 10-Prints any Macintosh file to 
personal-organizer pages. Just insert and go! . 57. 



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7722 Marco Polo 1.0.1 $152. 

ArMicrocom ... 30dayMBG 

4803 Virex2.8 56. 

5885 V\rex(10Pack) 329. 

7459 CarbonCopy Mac fS/ng/e, 2 req.j . 117. 

7465 CarbonCopy Mac (Twin Pack ) .... 152. 

ArMIcrotytics ... GOdayMBG 

2732 GOfer2.0 45. 

ArMIcroseedaPub. ... GOdayMBG 

7068 INITPicker2.0 35. 

2913 Redux1.62 49. 

7116 Rival 1.1 49. 

^Microsoft ... 30dayMBG 

4471 QuickBasic 1 .0 64. 

A' Millenium Software ... 30dayMBG 

6105 HyperX4.0 99. 

ANow Software ... 30dayMBG 

6924 ScreenLocker 1 .0 special 45. 

6925 Now Utilities 2.0 82. 

6739 Prototyper 3.0 184. 

Olduvai 

4503 MultiClip2.0 72. 

AON Technology ... lyearMBG 

6385 On Location 1 .0 75. 




Advanced Software ... 30dayMBG 
8051 In touch 10-DA that organizes your 
contracts & provides many convenient ways 
to stay in touch. It^s the only DA that stores 
names^ addresses^ & notes, prints envelopes & 
labels, dials phone numbers & more $40. 



A Preferred Publishers ... 30dayMBG 

6656 Personality 1.1 49. 

A Salient Software ... 30dayMBG 

7404 DiskDoubler3.0 45. 

7403 Partner 1.01 56. 

ASoftstream Int’l., Inc. ... 30dayMBG 

7589 Relational Objex 1.0 149. 

5440 HyperHIT2.2 special 119. 

7450 HyperHIT Relational 269. 

A Software Innovations ... 30dayMBG 

6647 HandOffll 52. 

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3448 SmartScrap& The Clipper 2.1 .... 45. 

3449 SuperGlue II 2.01 61. 

A Somak Software ... 30dayMBG 

ScriptEdit 2.0 or SharpenUp 1 .0 ea. 62. 
ASpinnaker ... 30dayMBG 

6692 PLUS 2.0 115. 

ASuperMacTech. ... GOdayMBG 

3377 DiskFit 1.5.1 58. 

3379 Network DiskFit 1.5 225. 



ASymantec ... 30dayMBG 

4644 Just Enough Pascal 1.0 




JAM Software ... SOdayMBG 

6089 Smrt Alms with Af^f^inmnt Diary 5.0- 
A Macintosh reminder and calendar system 
featuring: auto backup, variable snooze, 
multiple reminders, weekly and monthly 
views, and zoom. Multiple users available $63. 



5176 Symantec Antivirus for Mac (SAMj . 67. 
5724 Symantec Utilities for Mac . 99. 

3421 THINK Pascal 3.0 165. 

3420 THINK C 4.0 165. 

6748 Norton Utilities for the Mac 1.0 .... 84. 

ASynex ... 30dayMBG 
7147 MacEnvelope5.0 57. 

6666 MacEnvelope Plus 2.0 159. 

A Systems Compatibility ... GOdayMBG 

7872 Software Bridge 1.0 75. 

ATeietypesetting ... GOdayMBG 

8058 TScript 92. 

ATGS Systems ... GOdayMBG 

6667 Prograph 2.0 Compiler Version. . . 245. 
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3587 True BASIC 2.02 55. 

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7965 Best of MacTutor fCD-ROMJ 99. 

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6926 myDiskLabeler III3.0 42. 

4976 StickyBusiness 1 .3 51. 

6927 StickyBusiness Plus 1 .3 (bar codes) 91 . 
AZedcor ... GOdayMBG 

3985 ZBasic5.0 99. 




Tclcwarc ... 30 day 

7616 M. y.O.B. ZO-Incredible accounting 
software. "Best business deal on the Mac' — 
MacUser Eddy Awards. A/R, A/P, G/L, Check- 
book, Inventory, and Card File. Easy to setup 
and use, full integration, custom forms . . $ 145. 



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LEARN & PLAY 

Activision 

4486 Manhole $28. 

5127 Manho\e (CD-ROM) 34. 

5517 Cosmic Osmo 40. 

AAldus/SlliconBeach ... GOdayMBG 

3502 Beyond Dark Castle 32. 

3503 Dark Castle 1.1 32. 

AArsNova ... GOdayMBG 

1215 Practice Musica 2.2 69. 

ABasellne Publishing ... GOdayMBG 

7785 Talking Moose 23. 

ABeacon Technology ... GOdayMBG 
GemsofThe Word 1.0 (KJ or A//j ea. 25. 

4967 HyperBible 1.0 fK/r?gJamesj ... . 145. 

4968 H)/perB\b\e 1 .0 (New International) 175. 
A Bogas Productions ... GOdayMBG 

6135 Super Studio Session w/Music Library 99. 



Bright Star Technology 

1402 Alphabet Blocks 1.0 30. 

Broderbund Software 

4314 Type! 1.0 18. 

4540 Ancient Art of War at Sea fCPj 26. 




Salient ... 30dayMBG 
7404 DiskDouhler 3.0-Expand your disk drive 
capacity. Fast, easy and s^e, EfekDoubler 
dramatically inaeases the storage capacity of 
any Mac drive. "Performance is outstanding," 
eviuatesM^cL^ 7/90 (4^/4 Mice rating). $45. 



6516 The Playroom (CP) 29. 

4229 Carmen Sandiego Series (CP) . . .ea. 29. 

4966 SimCity 1.2 fCPJ 29. 

5871 SimCity Supreme 1 .2C 47. 

Geometry 1 .2 (CP), Physics 1 .2 (CP), 

Calculus 1 .2 (CP) ea. 58. 

5237 Whole Earth Catalog fCD-POMJ .. . 89. 

Bull City ... GOdayMBG 

5841 Moriarity Revenge fCPJ 32. 

Bullseye 

Ferrari (CP) or P51 Mustang (CP) ea. 31 . 

Carina Software 

5726 Voyager 1.2 88. 

ACasady& Greene ... GOdayMBG 

2268 Crystal Quest 2.2X 29. 

Mission Starlight or Sky Shadow ea. 29. 

7498 Sky Shadow 29. 

Coda Music Systems 

5854 MusicProse 1.01 186. 

5604 Finale 2.0 549. 

Davidson & Associates 

1734 Math Blaster! (CP) 29. 

6128 Math Blaster Mystery fCPJ 29. 



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Pluto and the Outer Planets. 



Carina 

5726 \bya^ 1.Z-A full-featured Plantetarium 
on your Mac! View the sky from anyplace on 
Earth; past; present or future. Features include 
planet tracking user defined orbitS; extensive 
printing capabilities; and more $88. 



Earthquest 

8050 Earthquest 48. 

:Ar Electronic Arts ... 30dayMBG 

6716 Pipe Dreams 17. 

6663 Sands of Fire 32. 

6594 Starflight 39. 

ArFirstByte ... 30dayMBG 
5294 Puzzle Storybook 1.0 fages3-8j ... 27. 
5293 Dinosaur Discovery Kit 1 .0 (ages 3-8) 27. 
'AGreatWave ... 30dayMBG 



KidsTlme 1 .2, American Discovery 2.3, 
NumberMaze 1.1, KidsMath 1.1 . ea. 26. 



2271 ConcertWare-H MIDI 5.1 98. 

NumberMaze Decimals & Fractions 
(specify B&W or Color) ea. 36. 



Ar Highlighted Data ... 30dayMBG 

7771 Webster’s Dictionary fCD-POiWJ . . 159. 




Bull Qty Software ... 30dayMBG 
5841 Moriarty's Z&vewg'-An intriguing detective 
game. Track a suspea around the world and 
determine his characteristics to catch him. 
Inaeasing difficulty. Computerized detective^s 
notebook and over 1;000 dues $32. 



get it today 



:i^HyperGlot ... 30dayMBG 

Word Torture - Beginner to Advanced 
(Span., Fren., Germ., Ital. & Rus.) ea. $29. 
Pronunciation Tutor - Beginner 
(Span., Fren.) . . ea. 35. ((Berm.) . . 42. 
Verb Tutor - Intermediate 
(Spanish, French, German) ... ea. 42. 
6611 Kanjimaster - Beg. (Japanese^. .. . 105. 

8026 EasyKana 139. 

7473 Learn to Speak French fCD-POM^. 175. 
7829 Learn to Speak Spanish fCD-PO/W^ 175. 
Individual Software 

7425 Training for Microsoft Word 4.0 ... . 35. 

^'Inline Design ... 30dayMBG 
5870 Bomber 1 .3 (includes headphones) 32. 

7622 Darwin’s Dilemma 32. 

A' Learning Company ... 30dayMBG 
2670 Reader Rabbit 2.2 fCP;^ages 4-7;. . 30. 
5453 Talking Math Rabbit 1.0 (ages 4- 7; . 30. 
A' Leister Productions ... 30dayMBG 



7126 Reunion 1.7 89. 

A'Microsoft ... 30dayMBG 

2868 Flight Simulator fCP; 32. 

Mites Computing 

5253 The Puzzle Gallery 26. 

2765 Fool’s Errand 32. 

Mindscape 

4083 Balance of Power 1990 (CP) 29. 

4596 DejaVu II fCP; 29. 



lArPenton Overseas ... 30dayMBG 

VocabuLearn/ce Levels I & II 
(French, Italian, Spanish, German, 
Russian, Hebrew, & Japanese), ea. 35. 
A’RBfBonalltainingSys. ... GOdayMBG 
PTS modules for Excel 2.2, HyperCard, 
Word 4. 0, Persuasion 2. 0, PageMaker 4. 0, 
Illustrator 88, FileMaker II, FreeHand 2.02, 



and the Macintosh ea. 52. 

Postcraft 

6466 Citadel 26. 

Premier Technology 

5773 Strategic Conquest Plus 2.0 34. 

5774 NetTrek— The Real Version 2.3 34. 

'ArShodan ... 30dayMBG 

7689 Leprechaun 29. 

Sierra On-Line 

3397 Leisure Suit Larry fCP; 23. 

Manhunter: San Fran, or NY (CP; ea. 28. 
'ArSoftstream Int'l., Inc. ... 30 day MBG 

4073 Colour Billiards 38. 

A* Software Toolworks ... 30 day MBG 

1842 Chessmaster21001.1 32. 

4619 Mavis Beacon Typing ^.3(CP) .... 32. 

4588 Life & Death fCP; 32. 

6111 Cribbage King-Gin King 39. 

A'Spectrum Holobyte ... 30 day MBG 

Tetris 1 . 1 or Welltris 1.1 ea. 19. 

3459 Falcon 2.2 30. 

A^Spinnaker ... 30 day MBG 

2328 Sargon IV fCP; 28. 

A-Toyogo ... 30 day MBG 

7624 Nemesis Go Master 4. 7 41. 

7623 Nemesis Go Master Deluxe 4.7. ... 88. 




Earthquest ... 30 day MBG 

8050 Eartiujutsi-K new highly acclaimed 
program that takes users on a journey of 
discovery through timeless material about the 
Earth; its people and the environment . . $48. 



A^Wayzata Tech. ... 60 day MBG 

6369 The World Faetbook 1989 (CD-ROM) 69. 



7678 USA Faetbook (CD-PO/W; 75. 

7374 Sport News Baseball Stats (C[>ROM) 139. 

★ XOR ... 30 day MBG 

6040 MacGolf Classic (CP; 52. 

8061 MacSki 40. 



NETWORKS & COMMUNICATIONS 



A^Abaton ... 30 day MBG 

6266 InterFax 24/96 Modem 418. 

A'CE Software ... 60 day MBG 

5638 In/Out (^70 user; 187. 

5173 QuickMail 2.2 fro user; 315. 



^'CompuServe ... 60 day MBG 

1676 CompuServe Information Service . . 23. 




day MBG 

\bcahuLcm/ce-iuidmg blodcs of language. 
New version features: type answers; user 
modifiable opcionS; create personal data stackS; 
keep statistics; & more. 3 hours of sound. 
Includes free HyperCard see line listing. 




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SAFE Power Systennis 

4561 SAFE 150 Watt Backup-250 watts of battery 
backup power to protect your investment. SAFE 
250 provides up to 10 minutes of run time 
when your normal service can^t. Built-in surge 



suppression provides extra protection . . . 



1673 CompuServe Navigator 3.0 49. 

1674 Standard Service/Navigator Bundle 69. 

Connect, Inc. 

5834 Connect 1 .5 for the Macintosh .... 63. 
★DataVlz ... GOdayMBG 

1823 MacLink Plus/PC 4.5 117. 

4842 MacLink Plus/Translators 4.5 98. 

Dove Computer ... GOdayMBG 

6758 DoveFax Desktop 299. 

'ArDow Jones ... 30dayMBG 
5295 News/Retrieval Membership Package 24. 
:A'Farailon Computing ... 30dayMBG 

5707 Timbuktu 3.1 95. 

4867 Timbuktu 3.1 30-Pack 1285. 

4866 Timbuktu/Remote 2.0 123. 

6371 Timbuktu/Remote Access Pack .. 845. 

5664 PhoneNET StarConnector 17. 

6273 PhoneNET StarConnector 10-Pack . 129. 

2203 PhoneNET Connector (DINS) 31 . 

4869 PhoneNET Connector 10-Pk fD/A/-8; 198. 

2206 PhoneNET StarController 300 825. 

6687 PhoneNET StarController-EN 1599. 

6766 MediaTracks 189. 

6767 MediaTracks Multimedia CD Pack . 319. 

6768 MediaTracks Multimedia Pack . . . . 319. 
lArFreesoft ... 60dayMBG 

6115 White Knight 11 85. 

Hayes 

2300 Smartcomll3.1C 84. 

2307 Smartmodem 2400 349. 

6655 V2400 Baud Modem 469. 

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You could have turned a $30,80825 
investment into $3,047,868,67 in 
5.67 years with our Index Program. 



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Calls 07/18/85 lOO $5.00 
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deadline pressure and focus on the 
computer itself. “Even though we 
knew it was important to get it out," 
says Baker, “we had to do the right 
thing." 

lively detail took on importance, 
and that certainly included the physi- 
cal appearance of the new computer. 
Once the built-in keyboard was 
scratched, the designers considered all 
sons of weird approaches. Fora while, 
recalls Bill Goins, |:)eo|)le were 
charmed with a “boom-box" shape — 
a long rectangle that you could, if you 
wished, transport on your shoulder. 
But since a boom box cannot SLij^port 
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wistful death. Eventually, the industrial 
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squashed .MacBottom disk drive, with 
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Originally, Jean-Louis Ga,s,see objected 
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chanced by. 

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asked, and was informed of the tally. 

“Make that to one," he .said, and 
that settled the matter. 

The designers had to make one 
more big adjustment on the LC — its 
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The design team members came 
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wise men in charge of the company 
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or even the entire project, Paul Baker, 
H. L. Cheung, and the others kept 
going, even if it meant that diings were 
carried off the books for a while. Per- 
sistence paid off — we now have the 
Mac LC. “This can he another Apple 
He, or Plus, or SE,” says IT. L. Cheung, 
not doing much of a job of hiding his 
pride. 

Speaking of the Apple He, one of 
the neatest things about the LC is its 
ability to emulate that computer with 
the addition of a board that sells for 
under $250. Just the sight of an old 
copy of Raster Blaster running on a 
Mac can make an old Apple H owner 
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this ability will enable the Mac to 
smoothly replace the hundreds of 
thousands of Apple 11 machines in 
schools — and probably rescue the 
company from oblivion in the crucial 
kindergarten to 12th-grade market. 

But the Apple II emulation hoard 
almost didn’t make it out of the gate. 
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it outright, just said no. What did the 
engineers do? “The design team never 
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just kept working on it.” And when 
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Washington Rethinks ELF Emissions 

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here may be clear-cut issues somewhere out 
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sions on human health is not one of them. The problem is simple: 
scientists know enough to say that emissions may be hazardous 




but not enough to explain how or 
why. And it’s a significant concern: 
'^dectromagnetic fields are emitted by 
powder lines, electric blankets, and 
other appliances, as well as personal 
computers. 

“We’re in that intermediate time 
period between when you first really 
suspect that something is going on 
and when you have a real good handle 
on it,” said Dr. F. Alan Andersen of 
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particularly tricky to study, and the 
research that has been conducted to 
date has been inconsistent. But the 
belief expressed in our July cover 
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concern is being echoed by govern- 
ment officials. 

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the epidemiological evidence is over- 
whelming. There are too many ex- 
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Analysis and Support division of the 
Office of Radiation Programs of the 
Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA). “When you have 64 studies 
done all over the world, with all dif- 
ferent kinds of populations, you start 
getting to the point where you say it’s 



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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



up with Congress ultimately passing 
legislation.” 

Pressing for Action 

The FDA, which regulates devices that 
emit radiation, isn’t waiting for legis- 
lation. One official wants computer 
manufacturers to dra- 
matically reduce low'- 
frequency electromag- 
netic emissions now. “In 
effect, as low as reason- 
ably achievable ought to 
be the goal,” said Dr. 
Andersen, acting director 
of the FDA’s Center for 

CO 

I Science and Technology 
I within the Center for 
i Devices and Radiological 
I Health, in Rockville, 
Maiyland. “This is public 
credibility that ycufre dealing with 
here. It’s not time to nickel and dime 
it to death. We haven’t talked about 
actual costs. But the goal is to reduce 
emissions. Period.” 

The FDA’s stance is news to some 
in the computer industiy, however. 
“Any conversations we’ve had with 
them I FDA officials I indicate that they 
don’t sense there is a problem, and 
therefore they have not done any- 
thing about it and don’t really intend 
to do anything about it,” said Ted 
Heydinger, vice president of the 
Computer and Business Equipment 
Manufacturers Association (CBEMA), 
a computer industry organization 
located in Washington, D.C. That the 
FDA has not spread the word is dis- 
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CONSPICUOUS CONSUMER 




The epidfjvuological 

EVIDENCE [regarding 
EU iCTROMAGNimC FIELDS] 

IS OVERWHELVUNG. . . . 

My guess is that we 

WIIJ. WIND UP WITH 

Congress ultimately 
PASSING it;gislation 

MARTIN HALPER, EPA 

trcssing, considering that a group of 
Macintosh manufacturers, including 
Radius and SupcrMac, pledged last 
summer to consider the emissions is- 
sue through CBHMA and similar in- 
dustr>' organizations. 

CBEMA may not have heard the 
news, but at least IBM and Apple got 
the message at an American Elec- 
tronics Association quarterly meeting 
in Washington, D.C., in late July. Dur- 
ing that meeting, Dr. Andersen gave 
the two companies his pitch. “At a 
minimum, if you can lower the emis- 
sions you ought to, is the position that 
we’ve been taking,” he said. “We have 
gotten a very positive response to that 
argument. My understanding is that 
there is going to be a movement to- 
ward a voluntary standard of reduced 
emissions for VDTs [video display 
terminals). And that there won’t be 
any question about people going 
along with it because they’re reason- 
ably convinced that they have no 
choice at this point.” 

Apple might not agree with that 
characterization, but the company 
does appear to be headed for a vol- 



untary reduction in 
monitor emissions. “In- 
ternally, we are investi- 
gating ways to lower the 
emissions of our prod- 
ucts tt) respond to con- 
sumer concern,” Apple’s 
.Marianne Lettieri told 
me. “We are responding 
because we want to give 
people peace of mind.” I 
asked her how Apple 
could say that computers 
are safe, when an EPA draft report on 
electromagnetic fields states that 
60Hz magnetic fields are a possible, 
but not pnwen, cause of cancer. Her 
response: “There are no scientific 
guidelines which we can target and 
no clear opinion that there is a health 
risk. We’re very aware of the debate. 
And we know there are legitimate 
questions, and we want answers too.” 
When I commented on the frustration 
that was audible in her voice, the 
spokeswoman asked what 1 thought 
Apple shoLikl do. When I mentioned 
the new Swedish purchasing guide- 
lines, she almost exploded. “We want 
answers. We are trying to be open- 
minded. That’s why we’re willing to 
put money, time, and effort behind 
this issue. But you’re asking us to 
target something that doesn’t exist. 
Even the Swedish procurement 
[specification] is based on what is 
achievable. But is it safe? No one 
knows.” 

Quiet Movement 

Apple and other companies in the 
industry say they are working to es- 
tablish emission testing and measure- 
ment standards, presumably as a 
preliminary to actually reducing 
emissions. As a grt)U[), it seems likely 
that computer makers will follow the 
lead of Sigma Designs, which has 
pledged to offer a monitor that meets 
Swedish guidelines for extremely-low- 
frequency (ELF) magnetic emissions 
by the end of the first quarter of 1991. 
(The company already offers a moni- 
tor with reduced emissions in the 
vei 7 -lov\'-frec|uency ni nge . ) 

As computer companies ponder 
their choices, federal agencies re- 
sponsible for health, safety, and radia- 
tion issues are examining existing re- 
search and l(K)king for gaps. 



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■ In Novemlx^r, the FDA’s Tech- 
nical Electronic Products Radiation 
Safety Standards Committee is meet- 
ing to discuss electromagnetic emis- 
sions and steps electric blanket 
manufacturers arc taking to reduce 
such emissions. Some computer 
manufacturers have been invited as 
well, to give them the opportunity to 
“brag a little” about the progress 
they’re making. Dr. Andersen said. 

• A National Institute for Occupa- 
tional Safety and Health (NIOSH) 
study of more than 1000 computer 
users and pregnancy Is scheduled for 
completion by the end of this year. In 
addition, NIOSH is convening a .sci- 
entific workshop in January with the 
goal of developing a national research 
strategy on the health effects of elec- 
tromagnetic radiation on workers. 

■ The EPA’s final evaluation of the 
potential carcinogenicity of electro- 
magnetic fields is expected to be re- 
leased in February. (A draft, i.ssued in 
June, was controversial because a pre- 
liminary conclusion that electromag- 
netic fields should be cla.ssified as 
carcinogenic was left out of the ver- 
sion circulated for review.) 

• An interagency committee, 
overseen by the Wliite House Office 
of Technology, Is supposed to report 
on existing studies .sometime in the 
first half of next year. The group, called 
the Committee on Interagency Radia- 
tion Research and Policy Ccx)rdination, 
is looking at the issue in response to 
a request by both the Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration 
(OSI lA) and the Office of Management 
and Budget. 

Despite this fluriy of activity, .solid 
data about how electromagnetic fields 
affect our bodies won’t be forthcom- 
ing for three to five years, according 
to the federal officials 1 met with in 
late September. It is promising that 
regulators arc pushing for answers. 
But there’s no guarantee that the re- 
sources needed to continue the re- 
.search, or establish standards, will be 
forthcoming. And there are skeptics — 
inside and outside the Wliite Hou.se — 
who don’t agree that the i.ssue is worth 
pursuing. That makes it all the more 
important that computer u.sers make 
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Therk are no 

MAJOR HEALTH RISKS 
ASSOCLA'I ED WI TH 
USING VIDEO DISPLAY 
TERMINALS. . . . 

We didn’t say they 
were; saI'E 

DR. WILLIAM HENDEE. AMA 

And it makes it especially critical that 
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pledges to reduce emissions. 

Apple's Testimony 

In July, Dr. David Nagel, vice president 
of Apple Computer’s Advanced Tech- 
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NlOSl 1, and the World Health Organi- 
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In Chicago, 1 met with A.MA vice 
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asked him if Apple’s statement was 
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there are no major health risks asso- 
ciated with using vitleo display termi- 
nals.” 1 pres.sed Dr. Hendee on the 
difference between saying that evi- 
tlence Is inconclusive and saying 
something is safe. ‘‘W'e didn’t say they 
were safe. That’s a conclusitin that 
was offered in testimony as an inter- 
pretation of what we and other orga- 
nizations have .said. Saying something 



is safe is an interesting 
dilemma. I’m not sure 
you can ever say some- 
thing is safe if you mean 
ab.solutely without risk. 1 
don’t know of anything 
that’s without risk.” He 
agreed that in the ab- 
sence of more informa- 
tion, the suggestion to sit 
at arm's length from your 
computer is a gootl one. 
In Washington, I was 
not allowed to interview an official of 
the American College of Obstetricians 
and Gynecologists, but a spokes- 
woman iLssuretl me that Apple’s testi- 
mony was “fine.” 

OSH.A’s Dr. Sheldon Weiner, di- 
rector of the Office of Standards 
Analysis atitl Promulgation, told me 
his agency has no position on the 
safety of electromagnetic emissions. 
“We’re looking at all the information 
anti studies. . . . The possibility that 
magnetic fields may be hazardous is 
a relatively new thing — there’s not a 
lot of conclusive cvklence." 

In an interview In Cincinnati, Dr. 
Lawrence Pine, .'MIOSH director of 
Suivelllance, Hazard Fwaluations. and 
I’leld Studies, saitl the agency’s basic 
position is that NIOSH has not found 
computers to be a .source of tlanger- 
ous ratliation, but that the agency 
wouki continue to mtMiitor .scientific 
studies. “One thing that should be 
clear to your readers is that the rela- 
tive risk that has been ob.seiwetl in 
studies Idr electromagnetic radiation 
are not, in general, tenfold increased 
risks,” P'ine said. “The relative in- 
creased risk Is at the low end.” 

In (ieneva, Switzeiiaml, a WHO 
specialist In radiation .said he was not 
concerned at all about his exj^osure 
from personal computers and .seemed 
untroubled by .Apple’s statement, 
but that’s not the end of the stor\-. 

Times Have Changed 
“It is clear that lhc*re is concern; con- 
cern both in the lay community anti 
in the scientific community about 
whether there may be some hazards 
from this ratliation,” saitl Dr. Pine. 
“Anti tlepentling t)n the intlivltlual 
.scientists who review it, they may .say 
there is some evitlence, a little evi- 
tlence, no evitlence, substantial evi- 



88 



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dence. 'I’he bt)itom line of that is 
there’s uncertainly.” 

Simply put, the issue can no 
longer be dismi.ssed. “When the lit- 
erature began appearing, yt)u ct)uld 
find a fatal flaw in all the studies, 
something that allowed yt)u tt> .say, I 
dtm’t believe it,” said Dr. Andersen. 
“Five years agt) there was lt)is of in- 
consistent animal data and human 
studies with fatal flaws. There was not 
enough of a basis lor anyone to act. 
'I'hat has changed. We’re still mostly 
.seeing human studies, but what yt)u 
hear is the phmse ‘suggested associa- 
tion’. . . . That, for us, means you can’t 
ignore that there may be a relation- 
ship between exposure to F.LF and 
adverse health effects. It’s frustrating, 
bccau.se it’s not a complete SI 017 . We 
can’t dismiss it, but what is truth?” 

I don’t know what truth is. The 
people 1 Interviewed about electro- 
magnetic emi.sslons .said that any risk 
of adverse health efiects, if it exists, is 
probably small. 'I’hey also said that 
regulatory action is dependent on 
enough data to make a risk asse.ssmeni 
(and so far there’s not enough data) 
and evidence that regulation would 
not be umiuly expensive to industrs'. 
One computer intlusir\- insider told 
me that “our role here is to pre.ssure 
the government to provide stantlards. 
We want st^meone to make .some de- 
cisions, .someone who’s interested in 
the public health.” Another source 
worried that by writing this column 1 
would di.scourage companies from 
moving forward; that manufacturers 
need encouragement, not criticism, to 
lake action. 

1 doapplautl tho.se companies that 
arc sincerely working to reduce 
emissions, l)ut I also believe it’s time 
the industry stopped proclaiming that 
computers are .safe and admit to un- 
certainly. As Dr. .Andersen concedetl, 
after I pressed him, “I would suggest 
I Apple) didn’t have enough informa- 
tion to u.se the .safe word.” 

But .Apple is not the enemy — the 
enemy is ignorance. Tcj their credit, 
Apple and others have called for ad- 
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testing and measurement procedures, 
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hortly after 24-bit color boards appeared for 
the Mac, the call went out for graphics accelerators. Having photo- 
realistic images on screen is nice, but not when it takes forever to 
scroll a window or paint a stroke. And the market has responded 



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Why would you want graphics ac- 
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color |K‘rform acceptably, meaning as 
fast as or faster than 8-bit color. 

Besides that, some applications 
have sf^ecial needs for graphics accel- 
eration. Kxamples include animation 
and multimedia packages, integrated 
video boards, and computer-aided 
design (CAD) packages. The.se appli- 
cations place particular burdens on the 
Mac’s ability to render and display 
graphics c|uickly. 

The ultimate rea.son, though, is to 
eliminate the distractions and barriers 
between what you envision and what 
you accomplish — in the words of Steve 
Hdelman at SupcrMac, “to make the 
computer invisible.” >X4ien you pick up 
a real apple and turn it around, it 
doesn’t move in fits and starts, 
redrawing itself each time a new por- 
tion comes into view'. The real-w^orld 
images you see flow by .seamlessly, 
however fast you care to move the 
apple. A virtual apple, modeled within 
the Mac, should have the same char- 
acteristics: photo-real Image and real- 
time motion w'ith no visible glitches. 
In short, the highest aspiration is for 
the digital Mac to emulate analog real- 
ity. We’re quite a ways from that, but 
it provides a good long-range goal. 



Terms of Enhancement 

At least four acceleration issues sug- 
gest themselves: overall approach, 
software level, hardware level, and ac- 
celerator location. Here’s a look at 
each. 

There are two basic approaches to 
graphics acceleration: display-list pro- 
cc.ssing and general acceleration. Di.s- 
play-list processing, termed “an aber- 
ration of the eighties” by Dave Smith 
(jf RasteiOps, uses custom hardware to 
help applications manage and render 
complex images comprising lots of 
individual elements. It requires that 
each application use special drivers to 
access the display-list hardware, pro- 
viding no benefits for applications not 
rewritten to use those drivers. By 
contrast, general acceleration focuses 
on increasing the speed of system 
graphics libraries. That benefits all 
applications without any special re- 
writing. The consensus among devel- 
opers is that display-list processing is 
a dead end; almost all solutions cur- 
rently on the market use a general- 
acceleration approach. 

The next issue is which level (.s) or 
section (s) of the system graphics rou- 
tines — QuickDraw' — to accelerate. The 
choices range from high-level Quick- 
Draw calls (which is what the Apple 
8*24 GC board accelerates), to key 
general-purpose routines (Radius’s 
approach), down to very low-level 
sections of code (which SupcrMac and 




RasterOps have done). Difficulties 
abound at each level. Apple is finding 
its QuickDraw rewrite (into the C lan- 
guage, to compile to AMD-29000 RISC 
instaictions) is going more slowly than 
anticipated, causing repeated delays in 
the shipment of the 8»24 GC board. 
The third-party companies take a 
simpler approach, aiming at lower 
levels of functionality. In part, they do 
this to avoid undue complexity; most- 
ly, though, they do this because Apple 
will not give them internal details of 
QuickDraw, so they arc limited to 
modifying that which they can deci- 
pher and patch. 

Related to those choices are deci- 
sions about hardware implementation. 
The first approach uses a general pro 
ce.ssor to carry out graphics functions. 
This can be a special-|:>urposc graphics 
processor (such as the TI 34010), a 
reduced-instruction-set chip (RISC) 
processor (such as the AMD 29000), 
or even a general-purpose processor 
(such as the Motorola .MC68000). In 
the Macintosh market, RISC proces- 
sors have proven most popular be- 
cause of their combination of high 
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STATE OF THE MAC 



speed and general function. Certain 
system graphics routines are rewritten 
by developers to run on a RISC pro- 
cessor; standard calls to those routines 
are intercepted and rerouted from the 
Mac’s processor to the RISC processor. 
This allows a great deal of flexibility; 
for example, Apple has discussed 
supporting both QuickDraw and the 
X Windowing system on the AMD 



29000 RISC processor used on its 8*24 
GC video board. This solution also 
requires lots of development time 
(which explains the aforementioned 
delays in the 8*24 GC shipping date). 

The second hardware approach is 
to implement key functions using 
custom silicon chips. For example, 
routines to do bit blitting — moving 
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hardware that does the same thing. 
This technique provides a much 
greater speed increase than the gen- 
eral-processor approach but offers 
much less flexibility, since the routines 
are cast in stone (or at least in silicon). 
This presents the problem of potential 
obsolescence should Apple radically 
change its imaging model. The ven- 
dors’ solution: limit the routines so 
implemented to basic, common func- 
tions unlikely to change. 

The ideal hardware approach is a 
combination of the two techniques: 
key low-level functions implemented 
in silicon, with another layer of graph- 
ics routines running on a general 
processor. Most manufacturers seem 
to be moving in this direction. 

The last issue is whether to put 
an accelerator directly on the video 
graphics board, or to keep it on a 
separate NuBus board. The former 
approach yields (theoretically, any'way) 
the greatest speed increases, since the 
accelerator can directly interface with 
the video frame buffer (the RAM that 
actually holds the graphics images). 
This approach also offers a single-slot 
solution, an important consideration 
since roughly half of Apple’s lineup 
(the Mac SE/30, Mac LC, and Mac Ilsi) 
has only one slot available. The sepa- 
rate-board accelerator offers greater 
flexibility, since it can be replaced or 
upgraded independent of the video 
board(s) in the Mac system. A separate 
accelerator board can also serve sev- 
eral video boards. 

Speed Limits 

There are, alas, some limits to how 
much graphics can be accelerated on 
the Mac. Some barriers are due to 
hardware architecture, others to soft- 
ware issues, but all point back to 
Apple. 

The biggest hardware barrier is the 
lack of block-transfer capabilities be- 
tween main memory and NuBus 
boards. This limits the data-transfer 
rate from, say, main memoiy to a video 
board to about 3.8MB per second — 
about one-tenth of the maximum rate 
using block transfers. This bottleneck 
has led to large frame buffers sitting 
on video boards (making the boards 
larger, hotter, and more expensive). 
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system CPU and main memory could 
be used to greater advantage. 

A related issue is the balance be- 
tween the system CPU and the graph- 
ics accelerator. If the accelerator is a 
lot faster than the CPU, you spend 
most of your time waiting for the CPU, 
and further speed increases can only 
come through a CPU upgrade. like- 
wise, other system bottlenecks (such 
as the NuBus issue above) limit the 
impact that an increase in CPU power 
has on graphics performance. 

IjCSS critical, but still useful, would 
be improvements in NuBus lx)ard-to- 
board tnmsfcr rates, which is also a 
bottleneck. The NuBus’90 specifica- 
tion (also mentioned two months ago) 
would double the tninsfer rate be- 
tween NuBus boards to upwards of 
78MB per second, increasing the use- 
fulness of separate-lxxird accelerators 
and providing greater transfer rates 
between video boards and storage 
devices that use NuBus interfaces. 

A major boost will come when 
color compression/decompression 
chips arc widely (and cheaply) avail- 
able. If significant hardware decom- 
pression were built into the video 
board an image could be restored 
quickly, and overall through|)ut would 
still be faster than moving the un- 
compressed image to the video board. 

There are some software limita- 
tions to acceleration as well. The big- 
gest is the complexity of QuickDraw 
itself, which comprises some 130K of 
complex object code. Apple provides 
little in the way of documentation or 
roadmaps to QuickDraw. On top of 
that, many QuickDraw routines are 
unraveled — using lots of fixed, re- 
peated instructions instead of more 
general loops — to maximize perfor- 
mance. The result: accelerator devel- 
opers have to disassemble, analyze, 
and figure out how best to patch in to 
QuickDraw while maintaining com- 
plete compatibility. Steve Becker at 
Rjtdius refers to this as the band-aid 
approach; all sources outside Apple 
term it the single biggest faistnition 
in developing effective accelerators. 

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Kennect Technologies 

24730 2.4M Floppy Drive $325 

24930 Rapport Disk Drive $195 

Sony 



57440 3.5* Diskettes 1.2MB lOPk' $24.95 
57401 3.5* Diskettes BOOKS lOPk' $13.95 



Tecmar 

23830 QT-40 40MB Tape Sys $950 

23831 QT-80 BOMB Tape Sys $1 .225 

24931 QT-40 Cable Kit $106 

26080 QT-80MB/2Car1 $85 

Printers, Scanners & FAXes 

Complete PC 

22752 Half-page Scanner $313 

22753 Page Scanner $758 

Digital Vision 

22758 Computer Eyes B'W Scan $196 

22759 Computer Eyes Color $344 

Dove 

22701 DoveFax-Ext $289 

Epson 

56303 LX810-9pinPrtr $185 

56339 LQ-2550 - 24pinPrtr $910 

56340 LQ-510-24pinPrtr $289 

Logitech 

22751 ScanMan32 S319 

MicroTek-IMSI 

22755 300Z Color Scanner $1,945 

22756 MS-IIB&W Scanner $1,080 

Relisys 

22700 TeFAXRA2110 $1,095 

Seiko 

22852 Label Printer $195 



26902 Labels lor Label Printer $1 1 .99 

Texas Instruments 

22856 1 7-Fonl microLaser PS $1 ,795 

22851 35-Font microLaser PS $1 ,995 



38311 Toner Cartridge $46 

38563 1MB Memory Upgrade $375 

38564 Appletalk Comm. Cd. 232 $115 

23056 Envelope Feeder $299 

23058 2nd Paper Drawer w/Ltr. Tray $325 

Thunderware 

22757 Thunderscan Plus $199 

Communications - Modem 

Applied Eng. 

22306 Dalalink Express $1 69 

22307 Dalalink Mac $199 

22308 Dalalink Maeport $199 

22309 MMPL5 Protocal adapt $79 

22310 Send Fax Adapter $79 



MacAvenue 

49525 1200 Ext. w/oSW $89 

49557 2400 Ext w/oSW $129 

Hayes 

49501 Smartmodem1200 $299 

49576 Smartmodem 2400 $349 

49578 Smartmodem 9600 $899 

Shiva 

22507 NelModemV2400 $435 

22528 NelModemV.329600 $1,289 

Communications - Network 

Adaptec 

22500 Nodem Thick $395 

22527 Nodem Thin $395 

Asante 

22525 MacCon+SEE $295 

22526 MacCon+SE30E $395 

22529 MacCon^-:iET $395 

22531 MacCon+SE30ET $395 

22532 MacCon+SEET $292 

22538 MacCon-^IIE $395 

Farallon 

22511 PhoneNETDB-9 $31 

22512 PhoneNETStar $18 

22513 PhoneNET Din-8 $31 

22514 PhoneNET to Localtalk $31 

22515 PhoneNETStar 10 pk $138 

22516 PhoneNET Star Controller $888 

22517 PhoneNET Repeater $313 

22518 Star Controller (Harmonica) $64 

22519 Portable Pack $329 

22534 PhonNet Din-8 lOpk $215 

Hayes 

22509 Interbridge $645 

Interex 



26295 SCSI Terminator, 50-Pin M/F ... $1 8 

26296 SCSI Terminator, 50-Pin Male . $1 8 



Novell 

2251 0 FastPath 4 Gateway $1 ,935 

22504 NetSerialX232 $275 

22505 NetBridge $339 

22506 TeleBridge $339 

Shiva 

22508 Ethergate $1,825 

Monitors & Video Cards 

Micron 

23541 SE/30B-Bil 640x480 $345 

23542 SE/30 8-Bill 024x768 $585 

23543 lid B-Bit 640x480 $345 

23544 lid B-Bit 1024x768 $345 

Rasterops 



22006 19- Mon. w/Color Bd. 208 ... $3,990 



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Breakthrough 

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MacCon+ HE ihick/thin 22538 $395 



DaynaFiie 

24732 5.25* 1.2MB Floppy $750 

24733 Daynanie 5.25- 360K/1. 2MB. $725 
Fujitsu 

24731 BOOK Floppy Drive $157 

Irwin Magnetics 

23832 5040/60 Tape Backup $635 

23833 5080/120 Tape Backup $795 

Iomega 

24384 Bernoulli 40-40 $2,195 

24385 Portable 44MB $1,850 



22007 GS30 Grey Scale 1 9" Mon. . $1 .61 4 

23531 Color Board 264 $554 

23538 Color Board 208 $344 

23539 Color Board 264/SE-30 $690 

Seiko 

22002 1 4" Color Monitor w/o card $595 

Selko/Rasterops 

22001 14- Monitor w/Color Bd. 264 $1 .1 19 
22005 14- Monrtor w /Color Bd. 208 . $909 
Sigma Designs 

22008 L-ViewMulli.w/card $1,495 

22000 19"Cok)rmaxw/card $4,999 

22100 PageView15"Macll $1,050 

22101 PageView 15 -.se $999 

22106 PageView 15". SE/30 $1,050 

22103 SilverView 21 " . SE/30 SI .599 



22104 SilverView21- Macll $1,599 

22107 Si!verView2r SE $1,599 



Accelerator & Expansion Boards 

Aapps 

23731 MicroTV $275 

23733 DigiVideoB/WCard $399 

23735 DigiVideo Color Card $644 

DayStar{w/co 68882) 

23632 Acc.03025mhzll $1,149 

23633 Acc.030 33mhzll $1,539 

23638 Acc.030 40mhzll $1,699 

23639 Acc.030 50mhzll $2,309 

23644 Acc.030 25mhzllx $1,149 



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T1 microLaser 

17-Font PostScript Printer 22856 
35-Font PostScript Printer 22851 



Storage Devices 

MacAvenue 

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24381 40MB Ext. Protege HD $395 

24382 BOMB Ext. Protege HD $525 

24383 1 00MB Ext. Protege HD $649 

24390 40MBExt.Qtm.Proteg6HD..$455 

24391 80MBam.Proteg6HD $645 

24392 105MB Ext. Qtm. Protege HD $695 

24180 20MBInt.HD-SE $295 

24181 40MBInt.HD-SE $325 

24182 80MBInt.HD-SE $465 

24183 100MB Ini. HD -SE $575 

24184 20MB Int. HD -Mac II $295 

24185 40MB Int. HD -Mac II $325 

24186 80MB Int. HD -Mac II $465 

24187 100MB Int. HD -Mac II $575 



Capture Any Video Image 

The Aapps DigiVideo Color card runs 
real-Ume video from any video source — 
broadcast video tape or camera — in a 
window on your .Mac screen and captures 
u color image in a flash. Edit and use 
these images in your graphics or 
multimedia presentations. 

Aapps DigiVideo Color Card 23735 ....$544 



The new 17-fonl version of the 
TI microLaser offers all of the 
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The SWITCHBOARD from DataDesk is the first fully customize- 
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re-arrange them in the position that works best for you. Add the 
optional SWITCHBALL to ma.\imize your input. 

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Sierra-On Line (Continued) 

28714 Leisure Suit Larry 1 $23 

28722 Man Hunter NY $28 

28724 Kings Quest 1 $28 

28726 Kings Quest 2 $28 

28728 Kings Quest 3 $28 

Silicon Beach 

28646 Beyond Dark Castle $33 

28648 Apache Strike $31 

28650 Dark Castle $32 

Sir-Tech 

28730 Mac Wizardry $34 

Software Toolworks 

28660 Hunt for fled October $31 

Spectrum Holobyte 

28604 Welllris $19 

28606 Tetris $18 

28610 PT-109 $25 

28614 Falcon 2.2 $30 

Spinnaker 

28616 SargonlV $29 

Springboard 

28618 Hidden Agenda $35 

SubLogic 

28620 JET $31 

XOR 

28622 TaskMaker $26 

28624 Lunar flescue $32 

28626 Road Racer $39 

28628 MacGolf Classic $51 

28630 NFL Challenge $53 



A Belter 800K Drive 

Appbed Engineering makes the 3.5-inch floppy drive even 
more useful with features like a read/write indicator light and 
an auto-eject button (no more paper cbp ejectors). The 800KB 
floppy drive is upgradeable to the 1.44MB capacity. 

AE 800KB 3.5-inch Floppy Drive 24735 $205 

AE HD 1.44MB 3.5-inch Roppy Drive 24736 $239 



Graphic Art Collections 

Adobe 

29246 Smart An 1 $83 

29248 Smart Art 2 $83 

29250 Smart Art 3 $91 

T/Maker 

29252 Click Art Business $32 

29254 Click Art Holidays $32 

29256 Click Art Christian $37 

2981 6 EPS Illustrations $83 

2981 8 EPS Business Art $82 

Optical Character Recognition 

Caere 

30610 OmniPage 2.0 $535 



Silicon Beach 

27581 Supercard 1.5 $197 

Smethers Barnes 

27588 Prototyper $183 

Symantec 

27582 Just Enough Pascal $46 

27584 THINK Pascal v3.0 $160 

27586 THINK C $163 



Safety, Maintenance 
& Repair Utilities 

Data Organization 



CE Software 

30354 DiskTop4.0 $63 

Fifth Generation 

30402 Suitcase II $47 



Presentation Managers 



Aldus 

29782 Persuasion $327 

Computer Associates 

29804 Cricket Presents 2.0 $283 

Macromind 

29217 Director $436 

29258 Accelerator $124 

Microsoft 

29798 PowerPoint 2.01 $246 

Certificate & Award Generators 

Springboard 

29808 Certificate Maker $21 

2981 0 Certificate Library $1 7 

29812 Top Honors $57 

Graphic Utilities, etc. 

Letraset 

29794 LetraStudio $273 

Solutions Int'l 

29264 Curator $71 

30380 SmartScrap & Clipper $45 



Do It Yourself Programming 



Borland 

27592 Turbo Pascal $67 

Icom Simulation 

30416 TMON $87 

Individual Software 

30426 101 Scripts&Buttons $35 

Microsoft 

27590 QuickBasic $64 



Norton UtUilles 
Take Care of 
Business 

With Norton 
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Macintosh, you can 
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problem. Fast. A 
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Norton Utilities for the Macintosh 
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Silicon Beach 

29224 Digital Darkroom $247 

29226 Super3D $313 

Graph & Chart Makers 

Computer Associates 

29806 C rickel Graph 1.3 $113 

DeltaPoint 

29260 DeltaGraph $99 



Mostly Painting 

Claris 

29202 MacPaint II 2.0 $94 

Computer Associates 

29236 Cricket Paint $176 

Supermac 

29230 PixelPaint Pro $387 

29228 PixelPaint $223 

Mostly Graphics Editing 

Adobe 

29266 Photoshop ....$498 

Electronic Arts 

29242 Studkv'l $95 

29244 Sludia'8 $295 

Letraset 

29790 ImageStudio $273 

Macromind 

29210 Videoworks II HyperCard $60 

29212 Videoworks II Accelerator $119 

Paracomp 

29218 Model Shop $378 

29220 Swivel 3D $294 



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Music & Sound 
Broderbund 

27960 Jam Session 

Byte 

27978 SmoolhTalker 

Great Wave 

27998 ConcertWare -F MIDI .... 



The Graphic 
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Mostly Drawing 

Adobe 

29788 lllustralor 88 1.9.5 

Aldus 

29784 Freehand 2.02 

Claris 

29204 MacDrawlM.1 

29206 ClarisCADl.O 

Cricket 

29234 Cricket Draw 

Deneba Software 

29232 Canvas 

Innovative Data Design 

29238 Dreams 1.1 

29241 MacDraft 

Silicon Beach 

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Hayes 

27662 SmarlComll3.1 $84 

Microcom 

27708 Cartwn Copy Mac $119 

Microsoft 

30580 Microsoft Works $177 

Software Ventures 

27660 Microphone II 3.0 $213 

Traveling Software 

27710 LapLink Connectivity $119 

On the Network 

CE Software 

27695 Quickmail5Userv2.2 $210 

27696 Quickmail10Pack2.2 $313 

27698 ln'Out5User $125 

27700 In-Out 10 User $187 

Farallon 

27666 Timbuktu 3.0 $95 

27674 TrafficWalchl.OB $127 

Microsoft 

27676 MS Mail Workstation $83 

27678 MS Mail Server $246 

27680 MS Mail 20 Pack 2.0 $959 



Technology Works 2 x 1MB SIMM Kit ~80ns 25480 $120 



Database 

Acius 

27780 4th Dimension 2.1 $51 1 

27783 4th Dimension Runtime 2.1 $85 

Claris 

27789 Claris RIemaker Pro $216 

Fox Software 

27790 FoxBasell2.0 $292 

27792 FoxBaso II Runtime 2.0 $1 76 

27794 FoxBase Multiuser 2.0 $385 



27796 FoxBase Mttuser Runtime 2.0 $293 




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Almost 90% of Mac. spreadsheets are 
created in .Microsafl Excel, so you 
probably know about the program's 
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Desktop Help for Excel gives you the 
information you nned to master all Excel 
functions, including macros. 



Microsoft F.\cel 2.2 30180 S245 

Desktop Help For Excel 
(Help Software) 28038 $48 



Office Productivity 
Programs & Utilities 
CE Software 

30358 Calender Maker v3 $30 

Claris 

29200 Smartforms Designer $291 

Kiwi Software 

30372 Kiwi Envelopes v3 $34 

MySoflware 

27816 My Advanced MailUst $27 

Odesta 

27818 Data Desk 3.0 $347 

Paracomp 

27806 Milol.O $156 

Power Up 

30432 Calender Creater + Mac $41 

30440 Letter Writer Plus $54 

30438 Fast Forms 2.0 S1 1 6 

30442 Address Book Plus $52 

Satori Software 

27812 BulkMailer3.3 $76 

27814 BulkMailerRus3.25 $187 

Spreadsheet Programs 
& Templates 

Ashton-Tate 

30187 Full Impact 2.0 $245 

Individual Software 

28476 101 Macros for Excel $35 

Informix 

30184 Wingzl.l $245 

Microsoft 

30180 Excel 2.2 $245 

30580 Microsoft Works 2 $177 



Communicalions 



Microsoft 

27798 Microsoft Rle 2.0 $123 

27804 Double Helix 3.0 $339 

ProVue 

27808 Panorama $246 

Tlme& 

Project Scheduling 

AEC 

29744 Fast Track Schedule $108 

Claris 

29740 MacProjectlM.I $366 

Symmetry 

27810 KeyPlanl.O $290 



On the Modem 

CompuServe 

27702 CompuServe Info Serv $23 

27705 CompuServe Navigator 3.0 $49 

Connec 

27706 Connect V. 1.5 $93 

Dow Jones 

27670 News'Relrieval Membership .... $23 

27672 Desktop Express $94 

Farallon 

27668 Tmbuklu Remole 1.01 $123 

Freesoft 

27664 While Knight II $89 



Tops 

27683 Tops Network Bundia'Mac $187 

27685 Tops Network Bundla'DOS .... $1 59 

27686 NelPrlnl v.2.0 $115 

27688 InBox Starter 2.2 $143 

27690 InBox Connection 2.2 $41 




Education & 
Entertainment 



On the Learning Curve 



Broderbund Software 

2795B Type! 1.0 $18 

27962 Geometry 1.2 $57 

27964 Calculus 1.2 $57 

27966 Physics 1.2 $57 

Byte 

27974 Puzzle Storybook $26 

27976 Dinosaur Discovery Kit $26 

27982 Rrst Shape $31 

27984 Speller Bee $31 

Carina Software 

28004 Voyager $87 

Davidson & Associates 

27970 Math Blaster Mystery $27 

27968 Math Blasterl 1.0 $29 

27972 Speed Reader II $29 

Great Wave 

27986 TimeMasters ! $21 

27988 KidsTime1.2 $24 

27990 KidsMalhl.l $25 ' 

27992 NumberMaze 1.1 $25 




.MacInTax automatically 
iigures and chocks your IRS forms tor errors 
and inconsistencies. Includes special 
worksheets for Itemizing deductions and 
organizing tax data. 



MncliiTax. 28502 S61 



ILeaming Company 

28000 Reader Rabbit 2.2 $31 

28002 Talking Math Rabbit $31 

Simon & Schuster 

28008 Typing Tutor $28 

Springboard 

27948 Animal Kingdom $26 

27950 Math Wizard ! $26 

27952 MacRobots $26 

27954 Read-A-Rama $31 



Just for the Fun of It 



Accolade 

28688 Hardball $25 

28690 Mean 18 $25 

28692 4lh and Inches $26 

Activision 

,28696 Manhole $28 

'28698 Manhole (CD ROM) $34 

28700 Cosmic Osmo $40 




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Broderbund 

28664 Star Wars $23 

28666 ShufflepuckCafe $22 

28668 AndenlAnofWar S25 

28670 AncienlArlofWaratSea $25 

28672 Where/Carmen Sandiego $28 

28674 Where/Europe Carmen $28 

28676 Where/USA Carmen $28 

28678 SimCity $28 

28680 SimCity Supreme $47 

Bullseye 

28682 Fokker Tri-plane $23 

28686 P51 Mustang Flight Simulator .. $32 

Casady & Greene 

28705 Crystal Quest 2.2T $39 

28706 Crystal Quest 2.2T w/edit $39 

Electronic Arts 

28652 Reach for the Stars $25 

28654 Bard’s Tale $30 

28656 Chuck Yeager Flight Sm $30 

28658 Ufe& Death $31 

28662 Starfleel $35 

In-Line Design 

28738 Bomber $25 

Mindscape 

28632 Balance of Power 1990 $31 

28634 Colony $28 

28636 DejaVull $30 

28642 Gaunllel $28 

PCAI 

28708 MacGolf $33 

Sierra-On Line 

28710 SpaceOuest $28 

28712 SpaceQuestll $28 



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23645 Acc. 030 33mh2 llx $1 .539 

23646 Acc.03040mhzlU $1,699 

23643 Acc.03050mhzllx $2,309 

23640 Acc. 030 25mhz Ilex $1,149 

23641 Acc. 030 33mhz Ilex $1,539 

23642 Acc. 030 40mhz Ilex $1,699 

23647 Acc. 030 50mhz lla $2,309 

23634 Acc. lid CACHE Card $754 

Dove 

23636 Acc. Dove 33MHz SE-30 board $499 

23637 Acc. Dove SE 020 w, 681 &1MB$799 

Memory Expansion 

Technology Works 

25480 2 X 1 MB SIMMS (80ns) $1 20 

25481 4 X 4MB SIMMS (80ns) $1 .399 

25482 4 X 1MB SIMMS (80ns) $240 

25483 4X1MBSIMMSWTX $276 

25484 4 X 1MB SIMMS FX $276 

Keyboards, Mice, Etc. 

25282 Cordless Mouse $89 

Amencan Power 

26292 UPS HOSE $207 

26294 UPS370d $337 

DataDesk 

25180 Mac-101 Keyboard. ADB $134 

25181 Mac-101 Keyboard $134 

25182 SWITCHBOARD $174 

25183 SWrrCHBALL $115 

25184 15 function key module $37 

Kennsington 

25280 Turbo Mouse Plus $107 

25281 Turbo Mouse ADB $107 

26888 System Saver Mac+ (beige) ....$62 

26907 System Saver Mac+ (platinum) $62 

26889 System Saver Mac SE $62 




The Smaller Mouse 

Smaller Is belter with Ihe LilUe Mouse. 
This electronic mouse is 22% smaller than 
the average mouse, offers 50% higher 
resolution — up to 300 counts per inch — 
and uses 100% optical technology. Optical 
mouse pad included. 

Mouse S\’stcms Little Mouse. 25283 . $77 




Mouse Systems 

25283 Little Mouse $77 

25284 Trackball ADB $72 

Summagraphics 

26885 Bit Pad Plus $318 

Accessories 

41601 Teak 3.5' Double Rol-top Box $29 

41600 Teak 3.5' Single Diskette Box $17.99 

41026 Vacuum w/hose $45 

41035 Dalavac Bags (5pk) $2.95 

Bernoulli 

57804 Tape Cartridge 44MB $95 

CompuAdd 

41019 Kleen Keyboard Kil $8.98 

41131 Eleven Piece Tool Kit $11.95 

41752 Teak KB Drawer PSK 132 $69 

41753 Under-Desk Keyboard drawer .$19 



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Add an Advanced Gravis Mouso.slick to your 
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for CAD or desktop publishing projects as well 
as for games. Three programmable buttons 
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options. 

Advanced Gravis ADB 
.Mousestick 25286 $66 

Cover-up 

26894 Mac Plus»SE Dust Cover $8 

26895 Imagewriter II Dust Cover $8 

Kensington 

25580 Mac II Monitor Starxl $62 

25582 Titt/Swivel Stand $23 

26882 SE Anti-Glare RIter (beige) $32 

26883 SE Anti-Glare Filler (platinum) .$32 

26884 Security Kit $33 

26887 Mac II System Stand $20 

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ics accelerators? Competition. Next is 
challenging Apple head-on with the 
introduction of its high-resolution ac- 
celerated 32-bit graphics board. In ad- 
dition, the technology developed by 
third-party companies for the Mac- 
intosh is moving over to the IBM 
world. By sometime next year, Apple 
could find that it no longer has the 
edge in display technology — that bet- 
ter, faster video boards are available 
for Next systems, IBM PCs, and PC 
compatibles. That development, com- 
bined with Windows 3.0 (or 3.1, or 
whatever version is currently ship- 
ping) could lead to Apple’s losing the 
desktop-publishing-graphics-design 
market that has sustained the com- 
pany for so long. 

Developers I spoke to had three 
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QuickDraw an open system. At the 
very least, Apple should publish the 
public data structures used by 
QuickDraw routines and interfaces for 
the lower-level functions in Quick- 
Draw. This would make it much easier 



for third-paiiy accelerator developei*s 
to boost QuickDraw performance. 
Second, Apple should remove the 
hardware roadblocks in current Mac 
architecture. This would include sup- 
porting block transfer between main 
memory^ and NuBus boards, imple- 
menting the NuBus’90 specification, 
and making hardware color compres- 
sion/decompression a standard part of 
system architecture. Finally, Apple 
needs to share its vision with devel- 
opers. A year from now, clever com- 
mercials about superior displays and 
ease of use may be coming from IBM 
and Microsoft, not from Apple. A nice 
graphical user interface is no longer 
enough to sell Macs, and it’s not clear 
what more Apple has to offer. 

What does this all mean for users? 
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players — Apple, Radius, RasterOps, 
and SupcrMac — moving toward com- 
mon functionality and approach.Com- 
petition for a limited installed base of 
Macs-with-slots will force prices down 
(good news for us, bad news for these 



companies); it will also entice — is en- 
ticing — these same firms to go after 
the IBM market (good new^s for them, 
bad news for Apple). In short, late 
1991 will probably see a de facto stan- 
dardization of 24-bit accelerated video 
boards, with most differences being 
based on marketing emphasis rather 
than actual technology. 

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ticular solution, especially while the 
market has not yet converged? By two 
factors: cost (can you afford it? can you 
afford not to have it?) and functional- 
ity (does it speed up the applications 
you use most often? by how much?). 
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pelling need for 24-bit color, then 
there isn’t much point in worrying 
about an accelerator right now. □ 



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INTERVIEW 



Verbatim 

An interview with Sue Morgan, founder of SoftView 



ue Morgan, who 
up in Los Angeles, studied phys- 
ics and mathematics at the Univer- 
sity of California, Berkeley. For sev- 
eral years she worked part-time 
doing contract pjogramtning at 
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratojy. After 
a seven-year digression fixym studies 
working as a photographer, she re- 
tiuned to UCLA and obtained a B.A. 
in quantitative psychology in 1975, as 
well as an M.A. in cog?jitive psychol- 
ogy in 1977. She completed course 
work for her doctorate before decid- 
ing not to pursue psychology as a ca- 
reer. In 1984 she founded Softweave 
with her programmer husband, Mike 
Morgan. That company became 
SoftView, which now has $6. 1 million 
in annual revenues, employs 65 
people, and dominates the tax soft- 
ware market for the Macintosh. 

MW How did you become interested 
in computers? 

MORGAN I started to learn program- 
ming in FORTRAN on minicomputers 
when I worked at the I-awrence labs. 
Uter, at UCLA, I did programming 
on the minis at the psych lab. 

MW What happened to your interest 
in psychology? 

MORGAN While working on my dis- 
sertation I became addicted to sky- 
diving. I started to work at the drop 
zones, doing work on other projects, 
and not focusing on my dissertation. 

I even started a skydiving club at 
UCLA. 

Although I decided 1 really wasn’t 



BY JERRY BORRELL 



into psychology, I loved program- 
ming. So I got a job programming at 
Technology Service Company (TSC) 
in Santa Monica [California] doing 
man-machine interface work on a 
navigational training system that in- 
cluded weapons delivery and naviga- 
tional training. 

During my tw^o years at TSC I met 
my husband, who was the leader of 
the project I was working on. 

MW Wliat came next? 



MORGAN After finishing my 
task at TSC, I got a job with 
SDC/Burroughs in Camarillo 
[California] as the leader of 
the in-house group for test- 
ing a product called OfisFile, 
a large file search and re- 
trieval system. The project 
experienced cost problems, 
though. So after one year I 
transferred to a project be- 
ing done for the Point Mugu 
Naval Air Station. 

MW Wlien did you first be- 
come interested in personal 
computers? 

MORGAN I was on pregnancy leave 
from SDC and they had mistaken my 
benefits so that I had two checks 
coming in. At one point I noticed an 
extra $4000 in the bank. So in May of 
1984 we looked at one another and 
said, “Let’s buy a computer.” We con- 
sidered an IBM PC AT and this new 
machine called a Mac. 

The IBM had color but the 
Macintosh had the advantage in terms 

MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



of user interface and graphics c'apa- 
bility. We decided that color wasn’t 
important. The 128K of memory was 
a problem, but Apple had announced 
a 512K upgrade, so we decided to 
buy a 128K Mac bundled with Mac- 
Draw and MaeWrite. It was the typical 
love affair. Oh yes, we eventually 
paid SDC back. 

MW What made you decide to start a 
Mac company? 



MORGAN We started generating a list 
of Mac ideas. After about two months 
Mike thought of a program we could 
do. He thought we could write an in- 
come tax program for the Mac — rep- 
licating the tax form on screen with 
the Mac’s graphics and getting the IRS 
to approve the printout. 

We looked at all the computer 
magazines for tax programs. But there 
was nothing like what we were con- 
(continues) 



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siclering because even on the IBM PC 
there was no concept of graphics on 
the screen. We divided up the work. 
Mike would do the programming and 
tech work, while I would handle the 
database [instructions], raise money, 
and be in charge of getting the prod- 
uct boxed and sold. 

WIW Did you go to Apple and tell them 
about your plans? 

MORGAN We never thought about go- 
ing to Apple because we didn’t know 
they helped developers. We didn’t 
know that evangelism even existed. I 
didn’t find out alx3ut Apple developer 
support until later. 

The guy at our computer store 
told us that if we wanted to develop a 
program for the Mac we would have 
to get Inside Macintosh. We also 
found out that we needed a Lisa, the 
development environment for the 
Mac. And so we bought a Lisa through 
a dealer at full retail [price] on a credit 
card. Mike worked on the program on 
weekends and in the evenings. 

MW Developing a product didn’t ap- 
pear to be so easy? 

MORGAN I panicked. We also needed 
the software supplement to Inside 
Macintosh and I found out that you 
had to get it from Apple and that they 
didn’t release it to just anyone. We 
drove to Cupertino and I knocked on 
the front door at Apple. I told Apple 
that we were developing a product. 
They finally sent someone out who 
asked us what the name of our com- 
pany was. I told her we didn’t have 
one yet. The woman asked about our 
business plan and I said we didn’t 
have one. So she had me wTite down 
on a sheet of yellow paper that we 
were doing a tax program and then 
she gave me the softw'are supplement. 

MW At what point did you initiate a 
relationship with Apple? 

MORGAN I found out by talking to de- 
velopers that you were supposed to 
have an evangelist and talk to people 
at Apple. 1 met Tom Nalevanko of 
Mainstay, another developer in Los 
Ajigeles. He invested in SoftView as a 
limited partner. I got to know people 

10B 



like Mark Marlow, from Ann Arbor 
Software. 

Then I started making trips to 
Apple. I talked to Alain Ro.ssman first. 
He said our product was great and 
tried to help us by letting the field sales 
group know how to use the product. 
1 was never able to work out a formal 
agreement with Apple, though. 

MW When did you begin development 
in earnest? 

MORGAN Mike took a leave of absence 
from Northrop [Industries] in Sep- 
tember of 1984 in order to finish the 




/ believe what Dave Winer 



always said: Claris is 
Apple. Say that 100 times 
until you get it 
straight in your head. 

program in two months. Instead it 
took six months. The program was 
finished by Febmary 1985 on the 512K, 
but it took us two more months to fit 
into 128K since we wanted to support 
all of the machines sold to date. 

With no idea what to charge, we 
released the prognim at $79 in April 
of 1985. We did have the concept of 
updates for registered users at half 
price, though. We took out an ad in 
Macworld and it got a lot of attention. 

MW How did you get approval from 
the IRS and know that your computer- 
generated forms would be accepted? 

MORGAN Eveiyonc knew that the IRS 
MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



did not accept computer-generated 
1040s. But Mike looked at the specifi- 
cations and decided that meant they 
wouldn’t accept forms generated by 
character-based computers and 
printers. They were accepting output 
from thousand-dollar programs print- 
ed by lasers. CPAs told us we were 
crazy, that no dot matrix-printed 
forms would be acceptable. 

I talked to the guy at the IRS 
whose department approved forms. 
He told me that to be a legal docu- 
ment the 1040 form had to have the 
graphics of the IRS form. We accom- 
plished that with an ImageWriter and 
got our form approved for MacInTiix 
for the 1984 tax year. CPAs said they 
didn’t believe us. I had to send them 
a copy of the IRS letter. I got smart 
the next year and printed the letter in 
the program’s documentation. Two 
years later CPAs were still saying that 
the IRS wouldn’t accept computer- 
generated 1040s. 

MW So by .May of 1985 you were on 
your way to fame and fortune? 

MORGAN We had sold 500 copies and 
were running out of money. Mike had 
to quit work to finish the program. 
After talking to our accountant and to 
our lawyer, I had formed a company 
called Soft weave. There was another 
California company with a similar 
name, and w^e used to get letters from 
customers with toilet-paper wrappers 
marked “Softw'eve” enclosed as a 
joke — so we changed our name to 
SoftView'. 

MW Given your limited resources, how 
did your company become knowm? 

MORGAN Macintosh user groups were 
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I told people to see me about a 
limited opportunity to invest in our 
company after my demos. I reached 
the point where I was getting requests 
for 10 to 20 offering memorandums 
(continues) 




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at a time on how to invest in the 
company. There was a $6000 mini- 
mum investment, and I’d average one 
hit (one investor] from each group. 

MW How did you run the company? 

MORGAN I had a temporary service in 
1984 that answered phone calls. 
They’d call me at work and 1 would 



return people’s calls. 1 was lucky — 
since 1 had worked so much overtime 
for SDC, my boss wius supportive. I did 
correspondence on the Mac. We ef- 
fectively appeared to have an office, 
thanks to the address of the tempo- 
rar>' service. We did our own disk du- 
plicating, our own UPS shipping, and 
our own shrink-wrapping. 

In June of 1985 we rented a one- 



room office and had one or two part- 
time secretaries. Mike was still our only 
programmer. There was not a lot to 
fund. My limited partnership brought 
in money. We went from one check 
to another until October. 

MW Wlrat happened then? 

MORGAN The same thing that happens 
every year: our update letter goes out. 
We let our registered customers kntnv 
alx)ut the new features in the program 
and offer to take their orders. Many 
people send in their checks right 
away. October is just an incredible 
time, with checks pouring in. 

MW How many registered users do 
you have now? 

MORGAN Seventy to eighty thousantl. 
We have a high rate of update. Word 
of mouth was ver\' important in the 
beginning. And user groups are ex- 
tremely important — if they like you. I 
remember the BMUG demo 1 did. 
They gave me a standing ovation, and 
the next day 1 had three or four calls 
from dealers and the press. 

It was incredible back in those 
days 1 1985]. People would go to stores 
and ask for the “Mac tax thing.’’ We 
had no distribution, no Apple help — 
just an enthusiastic following. Our in- 
stalled base grew from 5000 in April 
of 1986 to 12,000 in 1987. 

MW When did your first competitor 
appear? 

MORGAN There was a tax program 
called TaxWizard around from the be- 
ginning, but it was very' bad and we 
could uike care of it. At the end of 
1986 JK Lasser brought out a tax 
program. I knew Ingram, Micro D, and 
Sofisel by then and was calling them 
about distribution. They told me that 
JK bis.ser would go into their distri- 
bution channels. I said they’d get 100 
percent return on the product (from 
dealers). I asked if they had compared 
MacInTax to Lisser, but all they would 
say was that we were in trouble. 

So we sold direct until the dis- 
tributors finally picked up our prcxl- 
uct in 1987. We sent the product to 
the press, went to user groups, and 
(continues) 




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people wrote about us. Once 1 got a 
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tribute our program, that he had a 
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D] about that whenever I see him. 

MW Mow has your company come to 
dominate its market niche? 

MORGAN MacInTax is more than a tax 
program. It is a technology that uses 
forms as an interface. It’s wonderful 
for users. T hey can get online help and 
linking |data put in one place is auto- 
matically updated where it is needed 
in other places]. Mitch Kapor talks 
about those things in software that 
make a program a joy to use. Well, 
whatever that is, MacInTax has it. Mike 
developed the program as a t;ix pro- 
gram, hut the underlying tcchnolog)^ 
is a forms engine. 

MW Your forms product was some two 
years late. Why? 

MORGAN Because we invcnied some- 
thing new. We call it “graphics intelli- 
gence.’’ If you find that what you’re 
doing is not the right thing, you have 
to start again. We did that two or three 
times. There is no other way lo do it. 
if:x Forms Designer was finally re- 
leased in June of 1990. (For a review 
of if:x Forms Designer, see Reviews 
in this issue.) 

MW The forms market, ballyhooed by 
Claris and tethers as the second desk- 



top publishing market, never hap- 
pened. Why? 

MORGAN I believe there’s a market out 
there. But you have to give people a 
compelling reason to get away from 
designing things on paper and adojii 
the concept of having forms on a 
screen that are simple to communi- 
cate with and easy to fill out. But the 
reality is that the technology is not 
here yet. There is no way to exist in 
a paperless office. But there are 
products In development that will do 
some of that. 




Our issue with Apple 

is its inability to establish 

I the Mac as viable 

I' 1 

for markets other than 

desktop publishing. 

MW What happened to the Claris and 
Adobe [products? 

MORGAN Instead of developing a tech- 
nology to fit a need, Claris decided to 
lake a tcchnolog)' it already had, add 
some tools, and go to market. In a 
sense, object-oriented drawing — the 
ftindamental technology of most fomis 
programs — looks like the right solu- 
tion for the problem. After all, forms 
are lines, boxes, and words. 

What’s missing is that forms have 
a structure, that is, the relationship 
between lines and boxes. Words 
shouldn’t overflow a box when you 
type something too long. Boxes 
shouldn’t overlap. Applying object 
(continues) 



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moving boxes around. There is no in- 
telligence in the relationship between 
the objects on the form, so there’s no 
reason for the user to leave paper. 

MW How have Adobe and Claris fared 
in forms? 

MORGAN Not well. We think Claris 
spent more than it made and no 
longer puts development resources 
into it. Adobe is doing the same thing. 
No marketing efforts from either of 
them — I think because Claris adopted 
the wrong approach and because 
Adobe's product contains no design 
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MW Is there a market potential for 
computer forms? 

MORGAN There is enormous potential 
for the right solution — something 
akin to MacInTax, with database and 
networking capability that allows the 
user to fill in information. 



MW How does the generic forms en- 
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MORGAN The generic engine looks at a 
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to read a form. It tells what part is 
the structure of the form and what 
part is a field, the data. We have an 
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I of this language] is the encoded file 
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able to other developers, such as 
those of accounting programs. 

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to do is to determine what are good 
forms. Those are what we call the 



“forms people love to hate” — the ones 
that require calculations. We encode 
these for our engine. That’s the 
premise of our ifix Business Expense 
Reports package, which has five dif- 
ferent layouts for expense forms. We 
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tration and Department of Defense 
expense reports. 

MW When will you ship your next 
forms product? 

MORGAN if:x Forms Designer 1.1 
shipped on September 17. We’ve 
added EPS output capability so that 
tables can be imported into Page- 
Maker or QuarkXPress files. People 
build tables in those programs and it's 
a horrendous job. Wliat users want to 
do is make changes in tables. With ifix 
Forms Designer 1.1, it’s easy to make 
changes and export to DTP programs. 
Version 1.2, slated for year-end re- 
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Etc. We sell the electronic filing soft- 
ware, which edits and transmits the 
taxpayer’s tiix information to the IRS, 
to organizations that otter electronic 
filing. We also offer our MacInTax 
customers a process to file electroni- 
cally. As a matter of fact, a MacInTax 
customer was the first to file a return 
electronically last year. 

MW How did Block develop such an 
early lead in electronic tax filing? 

MORGAN H&R Block prepares more 
tax returns than anyone else. They 
participated in the IRS electronic filing 
program throughout its pilot stage. 
H&R Block used CompuServe, which 
they own, to provide an electronic 
network to its tax preparers. In addi- 
tion, they were ver>^ aggressive in of- 
fering RALs to their customers, using 
a third-party financial service. 

MW Does the IRS provide any help or 
support for people who want to sub- 
mit 1040s electronically? 

MORGAN The government sponsors 
seminars for CPAs on electronic sub- 
missions. We went to one. We thought 
we would be lucky to see 300 people 
there, but there were over 1500. 

MW What are the legal implications fi^r 
your company in advising users? 

MORGAN Well, the IRS has changed the 
laws on what constitutes advice. Pas- 
sive loss is an example of a more com- 
plicated computer calculation in 
which the IRS says, OK, you’re a 
copreparer. They try to get to the 
programs that give audit warnings or 
that give advice. They say that if the 
programs give advice, then their de- 
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MW At one point there was a consid- 
erable amount of ill feeling between 
your company and Claris. What was 
that all about? 

MORGAN There was some trouble but 
it was resolved. I had a disagreement 
with some Apple employees who 
were in a position to provide Apple 
third-party developers with co- 
marketing funds. And we discussed 
our technology with them and talked 
about what forms needed to be. I 
found out later that the Apple em- 
ployees were in fact Claris employees 
and their purpose in looking at our 
product was not to provide comar- 
keting suppon at all. 

MW Given that, what do you think of 
the developing situation with Claris? 

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Dave Winer has always said: “Claris is 
Apple. Say that 100 times until you 



get that straight in your head.” 

MW What effect will that have on third 
parties? 

MORGAN Tliird parties are faced with a 
situation more akin to that of Mi- 
crosoft, where one company develops 
applications and s>^tem software. The 
company has access to vital informa- 
tion and hardware strategies that other 
people don’t. 

Microsoft claims this tremendous 
sepanuion, but how do you prevent 
fellow employees from sitting down 
together for lunch and talking? And it 
doesn't matter whether an employee 
leaves the company, like Bill Campbell 
going to Claris. He was formerly vice 
president for field sales. So when he 
wanted information about a promo- 
tional campaign he knew who to call 
to get it. And you could say that about 
anyone from Apple. It’s much more 
difficult for the third-party developer 
who hasn’t developed these kinds of 
relationships. 



MW Doesn’t Apple evangelism pro- 
vide that kind of information to you? 

MORGAN It could do more than that, 
like involving the dealers in sales 
projects in some way. Kathy Lane 
[CEO of SoftView] has suggested that 
Apple form a software council con- 
sisting of 10 to 15 CEOs who would 
meet with a Mike Spindler to talk 
about Apple’s markets and to develop 
ways in which to help its partners 
tackle these markets. 

MW Is your husband still a guiding 
force in the company? 

MORGAN Yes and no. He is working on 
the forms product but no longer 
on MaclnTax. Now we have an entire 
research and development staff 
working on it — programmers, en- 
coders who do the layout of the 
product, and tax specialists. 

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MORGAN MacInTax is so seasonal that 
vve can’t put our next version in 7.0. 
But Forms Designer 2, targeted for 
’91, will incorporate 7.0 features. 

MW Windows versus the Mac Operat- 
ing System. XX^Iiat’s your point of view? 

MORGAN We’ve been developing for 
Windows for some years now. 
MacInTax for Windows [originally 
called Taxview] was out in 1987; now 
we’re developing new products for 
Windows 3.0. It’s hard for me to 
imagine that Windows 3.0 will not be 
a player. But it’s where the market 
develops from current DOS users that 
will determine who has the capacity 
to run Windows. 

There are still ways in which the 
Mac is superior, but 3.0 has some su- 
perior features as well. Fonts are bet- 
ter handled on the Mac, but that will 
change. The market for the Mac re- 
mains to be seen. [At present it is] 
DTP and multimedia; some real ap- 
plication of that may develop. 



MW What will be the impact of the 
low-cost machines? 

MORGAN We’ve been waiting for a long 
time for these machines to benefit 
MacInTax. It’s not a business program, 
it sells to individual users doing taxes. 
Apple needs to broaden its base to 
increase support for its products. 

MW A new wave of vendors is coming 
over from the PC community. Do you 
expect more competition? 

MORGAN There is one such program 
that we know of, a personal tax pack- 
age. One would expect a good com- 
pany to produce good programs, but 
we haven’t seen it. MacInTxx is well 
loved by users; we’re responsive, and 
we are making the product better. 

MW Apple has done a lot to support 
the large companies in developing 
Mac products. To what result? 

MORGAN When the Mac first came out 



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crosoft to prove to the world that its 
machine was a player. The question 
is why Apple still feels that way after 
this complete failure [of the big com- 
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companies like Aldus. 

MW Are you developing a product for 
the Next machine? 

MORGAN Not currently. It’s difficult to 
predict downstream what its market 
share will be. It does have good 
graphics and a good development 
environment, but we have to feel there 
will be an installed base. 

MW You’ve been outspoken about a 
need for access to Apple’s executives. 

MORGAN If you look at Mac sales we’re 
among the top 10 or top 20, and 
we’ve been on the Mac for a long 
time. We have no access to [Apple’s] 
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Pield sales. To formulate a business 
plan for the new low-cost Macintosh, 
who do we talk to? Apple says see 
your evangelists. But they’re not the 
people who can act [on policies or 
programs], so at best we’re having 
conversations four times removed 
from the people who actually make 
the decisions. That’s obviously not 
the best way to deal with Apple’s top 
developers. 

MW I understand you’re working on 
an important strategic alliance. 

MORGAN We’re talking with one of the 
Big Six CPA firms, about a sharing of 
technology. They would provide us 
with the expertise that we don’t have 
so that we can do more forms prod- 
ucts for states, plus fixed assets, and 
corporate forms, all of which we will 
bring to our own market under both 
the Mac and Windows. 

MW Wliat technology is missing in the 
Mac market today? 



MORGAN Technology to support forms 
and databases on networks, and to do 
routing of documents. That’s what is 
needed for the paperless office. 

MW The Mac is already the most net- 
worked personal computer. 

MORGAN You need products that can 
support the netw'orking. Another thing 
that would help is a unified imaging 
model. 

MW Isn’t that what TrueType and 
Truelmage are all about? 

MORGAN Yes. But they’re not here to- 
day. And we don’t know when they 
will be. Still, it’s worse on the IBM. And 
QuickDraw doesn’t do you any good 
when you need to output to a high- 
resolution laser printer. You’re print- 
ing to PostScript, which is not identi- 
cal to what you have on screen. That 
really shows up in CAD/C/VM or in 
printing a form. On the .screen you 
have type above a line, and when you 



print you have type on the line. 

MW What would you do if you were 
president of Apple? 

MORGAN I would target strategic mar- 
kets with specific solutions. I would 
quit talking about multimedia, a mar- 
ket without specific products or solu- 
tions. What good is it to talk about 
technology' without products? I would 
get together with key developers to 
determine where the markets arc, and 
what solutions are needed to get us- 
ers to buy into them. 1 would also 
worry about losing developers. Mac- 
only developers are a rare breed. And 
small developers have to put some of 
their resources into another platform 
effort. That diminishes the effective 
resources needed to produce new 
Mac products, diluting the effort be- 
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fact, it doesn’t do well in vertical 
markets in general except for DTP. It’s 
not fcKused. We’ve been waiting on a 
general business machine. Fora while 
there was an evangelist and a co- 
marketing person for accounting. 
Then tliey were re-org’d away. Now 
they’re coming back. The people in 
this area have changed several times 
over because of re-orgs. It takes com- 
mitment to long-term development 
[to make progress], and to some ex- 
tent the products weren’t there. 

W'hen we were Mac only and 
needed comarketing support from 
Api^le, we were forced to go it alone. 

MW Apple talked about its strategic 
alliance with Arthur Young for years. 

MORGAN Anhur Young, a major client 
of Apple’s, loved MacInTax. We were 
on their internal buy list. Then they 
merged with Ernst and W^liinney, and 
that’s how the Big Seven became the 
Big Six. Vkliinney was an IBM shop. 
For a while the new Ernst & Young 
battled over which machine to stan- 
dardize on. Where was Apple? We 
worked with them [the staff at E&Yj 
during the time they were consider- 
ing going to IB.M and advised A|')ple 
to spend some time in there or risk 
losing a national account. Meanwhile, 
cjuite a battle was taking place at E&Y. 
There was a report of people hand- 
cuffing themselves to their Macs and 
resisting their machines’ being re- 
placed by IBMs. E<&Y OK’d leaving 
the Mac in the few places of greatest 
resistance. Eventually E&Y decided to 
switch to the .Mac, except for the tax 
department, which went with IBM. 
Sculley took the E&Y executives to 
dinner but could not convince them 
to .switch the tiix department to Macs. 
We understand a major deciding 
point at E&Y was ihe lack of a brtjad 
product line available on the Mac to 
support accounting and tax needs. 1 
think the failure of E&Y’s tax depail- 
ment to go Mac is indicative of our 
major Kssue with Apple — their inabil- 
ity to establish the Mac as a viable 
hardware platform for markets other 
than DTP. We are one of only a few 
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those standard-issue charts with some 
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wondered how we create our charts 
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thought you might like to sec how it’s 
done and even try doing it yourself, 
so we’ve devised a tutorial to take you 
through a pan of the process. 

Here, most charts begin life as 
Excel files and end up in Aldus Free- 
Hand — because it offers powerful ty- 
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trols, as well as prtKess color (which 
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of magazines and other publications). 

You could impon an Excel chan 
into Adobe Illustrator instead of 
FreeHand, but an extra step is re- 
quired. DniwOver, a utility bundled 
with Illustrator, converts PICT files 
into Illustrator files but can’t conven 
Excel files directly. You must first 
paste an Excel chart into a program 
that supports object PICT (such as 
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and save it in object PICT for con- 
version into Illustrator format. 

Illustrator 3 0, which may be 
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lets you enter or copy data into an 
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can create any standard type of graph 
or chart within Illustrator. And be- 
cau.se you won’t need to import your 
chart from Excel, it won’t contain any 
extraneous elements to be removed 



(as described in steps 2 and 3 of our 
tutorial). Other than that, the steps 
for dressing up a chart in Illustrator 
3.0 should be quite similar to those 
we’ve descriixid for FreeHand. 

At first glance an Excel chart im- 
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a few difference.s — some immediately 
noticeable, others not so obvious. 
Because the chart automatically con- 
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elements — lines, pattern fills, fonts — 
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FreeHand interprets colors in an 
Excel chart as patterned (bitmapped) 
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to each color. Although FreeHand 
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You’re better off selecting one of 
FreeHand’s other fill options from the 
Fill menu — Basic, Graduated, None, 
or Radial (avoid the more complex 
fills, Tiled and PostScript, until you’re 
more familiar with FreeHand). Now 
you can customize fills as well as name 
and apply them to .selected elements. 

Although most of the type effects 
available in Excel transfer smcx)thly to 
FreeHand, there are a few exceptions. 
Underlined type loses its underline. 
A strikethru becomes a separate line 
drawn over the type that can be 
manipulated independently of the 
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type. Outline and shadow become 
PostScript effects (in the Type menu 
under Effects) that will print out, but 
they’re invisible on screen. This can 
create confusion if you’re using sev- 
eral effects on different parts of your 
text. But Freelland’s many drawing 
layers can help you keep track of 
which text is which. For example, if 
you’ve used shadow on some parts 
of your text and outline on others, 
send the outline text to one layer 
and the shadow text to another, 
making a note of which layer contains 
which type of text. Even if you’re 
using only one type style, you should 
put the type on one layer and the 
chart on another so that you can easily 
manipulate one without disturbing 
the other. 

Graphic elements in E.xcel — such 
as tick marks, bars in a graph, or the 
outline of a graph — become simple 
lines in FreeHand. By individually 
ungrouping these elements, you can 
convert each one into a PostScript 
path, an object whose shape you can 
dramatically alter in a variety of ways. 
More complex shapes such as arcs 
and curv^es automatically translate to 
FreeHand as PostScript paths. 

One type of element that doesn’t 
translate well is a dashed line. Once 
in FreeHand, each segment of a 
dashed line becomes a separate en- 
tity, making the line awkward to work 
with. It’s much better to start with a 
solid line in Excel and change it into 
a dashed line in FreeHand by using 
the Pattern control in the Basic line 
dialog box under the Line menu. You 
can customize a dashed line in the 
Line pattern dialog box (to access it, 
hold down the Option key while 
scrolling to a new pattern). 

Once a chart is finished, you can 
save it in FreeHand as an Encapsula- 
ted PostScript (EPS) file (for import- 
ing into a page-layout prognim). In 
this format, it retains all color and line 
attributes and can be stretched or 
shrunk without losing its sharpness. 

If you’re like most business peo- 
ple — with few artistic inclinations — 
you may be thinking that dressing 
up an Excel chart in FreeHand or any 
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Follow these steps to transform a simple Excel pie chart into a sharp-looking 
3-D chart for process-color printing. 

O from excel into freehand 

With Excel and FreeHand open under MultiFinder, create an Excel worksheet. 
Under column A enter the following numbers in the first five rows: 20, 15, 33, 
27, 5. Create a chart (select New from the File menu), select Pie under the 
Gallery menu, and double-click on example 6. Then select all and copy to the 
Clipboard. Next, switch to FreeHand, open a new file, select Include process 
colors in the Document Setup window and paste the pie into the file. 

Llngroup the pie using the 
Ungroup command in the Ele- 
ment menu (§€-U). (If your pie 
is just an outline, choo.se Pre- 
view under the View menu (§€- 
K) to fill it in like the one 
shown here.) 



O ISOLATING THE EXCESS 

Once the pie is ungrouped, deselect the elements by clicking on any blank 
part of the screen with the pointer tool or by pressing the 'fab key. Then save 
the FreeHand file. 

You’ll need to delete a lot of 
extraneous elements (such as 
line and curve segments out- 
lining the pie slices) from the 
chart. Begin by selecting indi- 
vidual line segments and drag- 
ging them off to the side. If you 
accidentally pick up a complete 
()iece of the pie, use the Undo 
command under the Edit 
menu (^-/) to put it back in 
its original position. 

Use the Send to Layer 
command (choose Arrange 
under tlie Element menu or §€- 
hyphen) to put all the pie slices 
on a different layer (in this 
case, use layer 50) below the 
current layer (100), These 
pieces will still be visible and 
selectable. 




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If you find a pie slice with no 
fill (one that*s made up of only 
line segments), select one line 
segment and ungroup it. Do 
this for each straight line seg- 
ment individually so that all the 
segments can be connected to 
make one shape. While holding 
down the Shift key, select the 
two straight line segments and 
then choose Join (under Spe- 
cial in the Hlement menu or 
J). Then hold down the Shift 
key, select the arc, and choose 
Join to complete the slice. >X^ith 
the slice still selected, u.se the 
None command under die Line 
menu and send the slice to 
layer 50 with the other pie 
pieces. 



Join first 




Join second 




o REMOVING THE EXCESS 

After isolating all the excess line segments on layer 100, select I^yer Control in 
the View menu. Set active layers to Drawing layer only and set Visible layers to 
Active layers only. While holding down the Shift key, select all the type and 
send it to layer 150. 

Since layer 150 is not active, the 
type is no longer visible but its 
selection frame is. Deselect the 
tyjTC with the Tab key. All the 
extraneous line segments are 
isolated on layer 100 (the active 
layer), so choose Select All from 
the Edit menu (§?-A) and de- 
lete them. Finally, go back to 
the Layer control dialog box 
and reset Active layers to All and 
Visible layers to All layers. Now 
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O CHOOSING COLORS 

Under the Color menu, select Process color. The resulting dialog box lets you 
enter the name and attributes of each color. Create a dark and a light color for 
each pie slice. For each color, enter the name (for example, Slice 1 Dark) and 
the attributes (100 cyan, 50 magenta, 15 yellow), and click on OK. (To simplify 
the tutorial, we've chosen colors and attributes for you, but you can experi- 
;■ ment with your own choices if you prefer.) After you set u[) the colors as shown 
below, save your file. Cyan, magenta, and yellow are indicated by c, m, and y. 

Slice 1 Dark: 100 c, 50 m, 15 y 
Slice 1 Light: 20 c, 10 m 
Slice 2 Dark: 50 c, 100 m 
Slice 2 Light: 10 c, 20 m 
Slice 2 Black: 80 c, 100 m, 40 y 
■ Slice 3 Dai*k: 15 c, 35 m, 100 y 
Slice 3 Light: 5 m, 20 y 
Slice 3 Black: 40 c, 70 m, 100 y 
Slice 4 Dark: 100 c, 20 m, 60 y 
Slice 4 Light: 20 c, 10 y 
Slice 4 Black: 100 c, 70 m, 80 y 
Slice 5 Dark: 20 c, 100 m, 80 y 
Slice 5 Light: 20 m, 10 y 



O applying fills 

Select the first slice at the kj[t of the pie, and choose Graduated from the Fill 
menu. 



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In the Gnuluated fill dialog box 
that appeal's, enter a name for 
the fill that corresponds to its 
slice (for our example, Slice 1). 
By clicking and dragging, scroll 
to find the From color (Slice 1 
Light) and the To color (Slice I 
Dark). Adjust the angle of the 
fill l3y using tlie mouse to miwe 
the radius within the circle so 
that it bisects the pie slice. Se- 
lect Linear as the fill type and 
click on OK. Select the next 
slice (going clockwise) and re- 
peat, following the same pro- 
cess for each slice. You can go 
back and adjust the direction of 
the fill in any slice by .selecting 
the slice and selecting Hdit fill 
under the Fill menu (or 3€-F). 
When you’re .satisfied with all 
the results, save your file. 




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o ADDING PERSPECTIVE 



Use Layer Control (in the View menu) to set the Active and Visible layer to 
Layer 50 and Select all (5€-A). Select the Scale tool, and while holding down the 
Option key, click anywhere on the drawing area. 



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O DRAWING AN EDGE 






Deselect the pie (Tab key) and type J§-K to put the drawing in Keyline mode 
(to see the structure of the elements without the color). With the Shift key 
depressed, use the pointer tool to select all the pie slices whose outside edges 
are (completely or partially) in the bottom half of the pie (in our example, 
slices 2, 3, and 4). 



Then use the Clone command 
in the Edit menu (or §^-=) to 
make duplicates of the selected 
slices directly on top of the 
originals. Deselect using the 
Tab key and select Slice 4 by 
clicking on its outside edge. 

Select the knife tool from 
the tool box and cut the arc of 
Slice 4 at point A as shown 
(where the horizontal center 
line meets the left edge of the 
pie). Then cut at point B to 
separate the arc AB from the 
rest of the pie slice’soutline. 
Deselect (Tab key). Select and 
drag from point C. If the piece 
you just moved looks like the 
example, delete it. Now select 
Slice 3 and cut at points B and 
D. Select and drag again from 
point C, and delete. Select Slice 
2, cut at points D and E. Select 
and drag from point F, and de- 
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O DRAWING A WEDGE 

With the Shift key depressed, Select the arcs in the boirom lialf of the pie, mak- 
ing sure to click only below the ht)rizontal center line of the pie. Now choose 
Clone from the F.dii menu (l€-=). 

Choose Move (Rlement menu 
or 3€-.M) and the Move ele- 
ments dialog box a|.^pears. In 
tile I lori/onial box, type 0. TV) 
create a wedge that’s 2 picas 
thick, in the Vertical box type 
-2P0 (to move the three arcs 
down 2 picas) and then click on 
OK. Move the arcs down fur- 
ther to create a thicker wedge; 
for example, -4P0 makes it 4 
picas thick. De.seleci (T’ah key). 

Use the pointer tool to .select 
the leftmost arc segment on the 
pie (below the horizontal line). 

Highlight the point that a(i- 
pears on the arc (1) by clicking 
on it, then .select the corner- 
point U)ol. Drag a straight line 
from the highlighted point to 
; the edge of the cloned arc be- 
low. Select the pointer tool and 
while holding down the Shift 
key, select the bottom arc. 

Choose Join (§^-J) to join the 
two segments. Then with the 
joined segment still selected, 
type ^-1 to of)en the informa- 
tion dialog box, check the 
Clo.sed button, and click on OK. 

T’his creates ;t new line (2) at 
the rightmost side of the 
wedge, closing it. Select the 
next arc (going counterdock- 
wLse on the pie). Highlight the 
leftmost pf)ini. Then, using the 
corner-point tool, tr;tce over 
the right edge of the line. Se- 
lect the cloned arc, join it to 
the arc above, and close the 
path — just as you did before. 



Click and drag eacii wedge away 
from the pie to make sure 
you've created them correctly. 
Then use the LTido command 
as many times as it takes to put 
each piece hack where it was. 



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o FILLING THE EDGES 

Select the left edge segment and choose Graduated from the Fill menu. For the 
From cok^r, select Slice 4 Black, and for the To cok^r, select Slice 4 Dark. .Make 
the Angle 0 degrees and the fill type Linear. You won’t see the fill because 
yoirre in Keyline mode. For the middle edge, make the From color Slice 3 
Dark, the To color Slice 3 Black, the Angle 0 degrees, and the fill type Linear. 
For the right edge, make the From color Slice 2 Black, the To color Slice 2 
Dark, the Angle 0 degrees, and the fill type Logarithmic. 

Choose Preview (^-K) to see 
the j:)ie in color. 



0 CREATING AN OUTLINE 

While still in Preview niixle and on layer 50, select all the pie slices (!lg-A). Now 
choose the Clone command (§€-=) to create a du[)licate of the pie directly on 
top of the original; the copy you make is selected. leave it selected and choose 
the None command under the Fill menu to give all the cloned segments a fill 
of .None. 

After choosing Basic from the IJne menu, you’ll see the Basic line dialog 
lx>x. Define a line that's twice as thick as you want the outline to he. P'or this 
example, create a line that’s 4 points chick. If the tlefault measure for the file Ls 
set to some other measure than picas or points, you can override it by iyi')ing 
0P4 in the Weight box. In the Color box, select Black. In the Name box, type 
Outline. Select the rounded-corner option under Join, and click on OK. 

The cloned pie now has thick 
borders around each slice. 

Send the still-selected clonetl 
pie to layer 40. Set all layers to 
Visible and you’ll notice an 
outline surrounding the pie 
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0 TUNING UP THE TEXT 



To iwcak the text labels (ours contain percentage values) for the pie slices, 
position each to correspond to its slice by clicking and dragging the number. 
Then select all the numbers and use the Font submenu under the Type menu 
to select a font (we’ve chosen Helvetica). Select Horizontal scaling (Type menu) 
anti enter 70%. In the Type menu under Style, choose Bold. 



To add space between the 
number and the percent sign, 
use the Magnifying tool to : 
zoom in on a block of type. 
Then select the block and type 
3€-I. Place the cursor between 
the zero and the percent sign. ' 
While holding down the §€ key, 
press the right-arrow key to 
add space. 

Other Typos of Graphs 

Importing bar or column 
graphs into Freelland converts 
the elements into lines and 
rectangles. Check to see if any 
tick marks are buried where 
the.v and j axCvS meet. You can 
ungroup the bars individually 
and lilghlight their end points 
to change their length. You can 
also ungroup the tick marks 
individually to highlight and 
stretch them simultaneously 
across the graph. 

With area graphs, each area 
comprises two elements: one 
has a fill with no outline and 
directly on top of it is an out- 
line with no fill. Select the 
outline, drag it off to the side, 
and delete it. Then a.ssign an 
outline to the fill that remains, 
St) you’re left with one element 
containing both fill and outline. 

With scatter plots and line 
graphs, FrccHand Interprets 
each graph categoiy as a dif- 
ferent shape. If a graph has 
three or more categories, one 
of them is re pre.se rued by 
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Ric Honey, a project manager of new 
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MACWORLD NEWS 



by Dan Uttman and Tom Moran 




War of the Roses 

Yet another standards battle 
is erupting, this time over 
the issue of color calibration 
and matching. The two major contes- 
tants — SuperMac and Radius — both 
made announcements at Boston 
Macworld Expo about new and exist- 
ing products, while taking a few shots 
at one another. Other color technol- 
ogy firms indicated that they might 
get involved in the dispute over color 
matching, either supporting existing 
solutions or introducing their own. 

The issue at the heart of this con- 
flict could be described as spectrum 
WYSIWYG: how to ensure that the 
colors you see on your screen match 
the colors you get on your output 
device (printer, film recorder, and so 
on) and the colors coming in from 
your input device (color scanner). 
There are two basic problems in- 
volved: calibrating color monitors so 
that they show the same colors, and 
providing applications (and users) 
with a set of colors that appear iden- 
tical on all devices. 

SuperMac introduced the Super- 
Match Professional Color Matching 
System, which comprises the 
SuperMatch Display Calibrator, sup- 
porting software, and a replacement 
for the standard Macintosh Color 
Picker panel. Based on the TekColor 
model developed by Tektronix, the 
SuperMatch system is touted as be- 
ing compatible with a wide range of 
devices and applications. SuperMac 
has also promised future support of 
the Pantone color matching system. 

Radius fired back with a new soft- 
ware release (version 1.2) for the Ra- 
dius PrecisionColor Calibrator, mak- 
ing it compatible (for the first time) 




The contenders: the Radius PrecisionColor Calibrator (left) and SuperMac's SuperMatch Dis- 
play Calibrator both calibrate monitors, but differ in their approach. 



with some non-Radius monitors and 
citing support for Pantone, ANI^A, and 
Ad-Litho color matching systems. 
They also opened up their approach, 
releasing a developer’s toolkit that 
enables third-party firms to add 
PrecisionColor support to their ap- 
plications. Aldus, Quark, and Letmset 
have all announced plans to support 
the Radius standard. 

While disputes exist over which 
technology is better, Suj^erMac’s ap- 
proach has one powerful advantage — 
it’s transparent to most a()plications, 
while Radius requires that applica- 
tions be modified to work with its 
system. Still, the conflict is far from 
over, and other contestants may soon 
join in. It will be some time before 
we can tell if Mac users are the ulti- 
mate winners or losers in this war. 

— Bruce F. Webster 



Next: Price Down, 

Power Up 

■ Next is showing a revamped 
and expanded product line 
that includes a $4995 sys- 
tem. The company claims it has al- 
ready taken orders for 15,000 units, 
and software support is coming from 
developers including Lotus, Adobe, 
WordPerfect, and others. 

The $4995 Nextstation, and the 
Nextstation Color and Nexteube (both 
$7995), all have a 25MHz 68040 pro- 
ce.ssor and a 25MHz 56001 digital sig- 
nal processor; 8MB of R/\M (12MB for 
the Nextstation Color); a 105MB hard 
drive; a 2.88MB floppy disk drive; 
built-in 1120-by-832 video; built-in 
microphone and speaker; a SCSI II 
and two serial ports; twisted-pair and 
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According to 

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only 8% of the power problems 
that affea computers. What’s more, 
the sags, brownouts and blackouts 
that make up the other 92% can be 
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MACWORLD NEWS 




The Nextstation Color: 16 inches of 16-bit 
color running at 15 MIPS for $8000. 



thin-wire Ethernet; and a keyboard 
and a two-button mouse. The vslotless, 
pizza box-shape Nextstation and the 
Ncxtcube both come with the 17-inch 
Next Megapixel Display and on-board 
4-bit video providing 4 levels of gray 
and 4 levels of transparency; the 
Nextstation Color comes with the 16- 
inch Next Megapixel Color Display (a 
Sony Trinitron monitor) with on- 
board 16-bit video providing 4096 
ccMors and 16 levels of transparency. 

Next also introduced the Next- 
dimension, a 32-bit color video board 
for the Nexteube with an Intel i860 
RISC-based graphics accelerator, 
NTSC in and out, and a C-Cube JPEG 
chip capable of real-time video com- 
pression. The Nextdimension sells for 
$3995; an accompanying Next Mega- 
pixel Color Display costs $2995. 

Next know's that harcKvare doesn't 
sell without softw'are, and some of the 
software developed for the new Next 
machines is impressive. Lotus Improv 
is a multidimensional, natural lan- 
guage-based spreadsheet and mod- 
eling tool that may sell quite a few 
Next systems by itself. Other impres- 
sive softw^are includes Knowledge 
Transfer’s SimuLearn, a HyperCard- 
like system for building tutorials; and 
Imagine's MediaStation, a multimedia- 
presentation and -archiving system. 

Next’s system softw'are, Nextstep 
2.0, adds many features: support for 
multithreading; fax (an external Eix 
modem is rec[uired); CD ROM read- 
ers; the ability to read and write MS- 
DOS-formatted 3 '/ 2 -inch di.sks. 

The new products, prices, and 
sales mean that Next will be around 
awhile longer. Whether or not the 
company can turn these develop- 
ments into a profitable market share 
remains to be seen. — Bruce F. Webster 



CE's New Interface 

CE Software’s early share- 
w^are DA DiskTop was noth- 
ing fancy, but it could do all 
kinds of things the Mac couldn’t do 
on its ow'n — things like finding files, 
moving or copying files while inside 
an application, and changing file types 
and creators. 

CE is about to ship another prod- 
uct that does for the Mac interface 
wJiat Apple can’t quite get around to 
doing. Tiles is a simple application 
that works w'ith MultiFinder to keep 
track of everything you do at your Mac 
and represent it all as an icon. For 
example, if you sit down at your Mac, 
open a Panorama database, launch 
WriteNow, and open three WriteNow 
files, Tiles nests icons for each appli- 
cation and its documents in a Project 
tile. Next time you start up your Mac, 
you can run Tiles and simply double- 
click that Project tile to open those 
Panorama and WriteNow' documents. 
Or just clone the tile and leave it sit- 
ting on your desktop to double-click 
when you start the day. 

You can also make tiles of 
QuicKeys 2.0 sequences, and arrange 
tiles in long strings, giving the Mac 
the iconic equivalent of DOS batch 
files. You can control how many 
events Tiles keeps track of and for 
what applications; modify icons; and 
sort tiles by name, how frequently 
they’re used, and so on. If you move 
a file called by a tile, CEToolbox, CE’s 
system-manager utility, will update 
the tile automatically. 



Tiles will list for $99.95 and will 
include Window Cleaner, an INIT 
that hides windows belonging to 
background applications. For addi- 
tional information, contact CE Soft- 
ware in West Des Moines, Iowa, at 
515/224-1995.-D.L. 

Golden Triangle's Disk- 
Twin Offers Data Security 

For applications that require 
a high degree of data secu- 
rity, Golden Triangle is of- 
fering DiskTwin, a NuBus board that, 
in conjunction with a second hard 
drive, creates a complete copy of the 
data on the primaty^ hard drive. Un- 
like software disk-mirroring or some 
mirroring drive controllers, DiskTwin 
does not adversely affect the perfor- 
mance of the Mac because it does not 
require the system or controller to 
write data first to one drive and then 
to the second storage device. 

DiskTwin works by residing on 
the NuBus and, when data is being 
written to the primaiy hard drive, re- 
cording it on the second drive as well. 
Mirroring boards usually operate by 
sending the same signal to two disk 
drives, but if the board itself fails, ac- 
cess to the data is lost until it can be 
repaired or replaced. Because Disk- 
Twin works in addition to the Macin- 
tosh’s drive controller, the user will 
have access to one of the two com- 
plete sets of data, even if the control- 
ler or DiskTwin should fail. Golden 
Triangle calls this approach disk 
duplexing. 

Golden Triangle 
is offering DiskTwin — 
without a hard drive 
— at a retail price of 
$995. Golden Triangle 
has made arrange- 
ments with Procom 
and C.MS Enhance- 
ments for those com- 
panies to bundle 
DiskTwin with some 
of their hard drives. 

Customers who 
buy two of Procom ’s 
650MB or 1GB hard 
drives will get Disk- 
Twin for free. Those 
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John Foster (left) and John Pence at CE's future offices. The 
pair have followed Tiles through several companies. 





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141 






The Questm kiTt Wlw 
Hrnian Noiite Cost So Little... 
It’s Why Apple And Radius 
Charge & Mrch. 



We make no apologies for the pricing of our 
monochrome monitors. Like all Ehman peripherals 
they’re excellent products and superb values. But it’s hard 
to explain the gap between Ehman monitors and the two 
leading brands. It's even harder to justify it. 

You could buy three Ehman two page monitors for the 
suggested retail price of one Apple two page monitor. Or 
you could buy three Ehman full page monitors for the price 
of one Radius full page monitor. 

If you think we’ve taken short cuts in quality, think 
again. Ehman monitors feature exceptional resolution, 
front mounted controls, U.S. made tubes, and our two- 
page monitor has true WYSIWYG resolution and a 



flicker-free refresh rate higher than Apple or Radius. 

Prices on the Ehman monochrome monitors include card, 
a tilt/swivel base, a full one year warranty, and, of course, 
our standard 30 day money-back guarantee. 

For those who are in the maii:et for monitors there 
are a couple of choices. If you don’t mind spending money 
on expensive labels, buy your next monitor from Apple or 
Radius. But, if you prefer saving money, call Ehman. 

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The DiskTwin board works with a second hard drive to make a 
copy of the data on the primary hard drive. 



who buy any Procom drive ranging 
from 20MB to 1GB will be eligible to 
purchase DiskTwin for S495. CMS, 
which will call the product NuPlex, 
will offer it with its higher-capacity 
Platinum series of hard drives. The 
Platinum series includes lOOMB, 
130MB, 150MB, 170MB, 175MB, 
200MB, 300MB, 600MB, and 1GB 
drives. According to CMS, its pricing 
was not finalized, but the cost of a 
Platinum drive with NuPlex should lx,* 
alx)ut $300 to $400 more than that of 
the corresponding Platinum drive. For 
more information, contact Golden 
Triangle in San Diego, California, at 
619/279-2100.— T.M. 



programming in a 
complicated simula- 
tion language. Now, 
using the Macintosh 
anti programs like 
ithink, it is po.ssible to 
model the world’s 
population explosion, 
fluctuating petroleum 
prices, or the growth 
of bacteria, with the 
simplicity of the 
Mac’s point-and-click 
interface. By placing 
and connecting Icons 
representing stocks 
(quantities that accu- 
mulate like cash in an 
account or liquid in a 
container), flows (quantities that 
move in and out like income and ex- 
penses or water flowing into or out 
of a reservoir), and convertors (which 
describe how the input changes to 
create an output), ithink enables you 
to describe a complex set of relation- 
ships — without an advanced degree in 
the kind of math available to engi- 
neers, physicists, and mathematicians. 

Competing products offer some 
but not all of ithink’s capability 
Extend, which requires mastery' of 
a simulation language, lacks a full 
integration of graphics with the 
simulation model. Cry^stal Ball makes 



generating and summarizing random 
outcomes a simple task, but your 
model must lx,* constructed within a 
spreadsheet, ithink has taken the 
simulation process well beyond this. 
Among features .setting ithink apart 
from its predecessor Stella arc color 
support, full integration of graphics 
with the model, and new functions 
that permit more complex mtxlels. 

ithink will list for $450. For more 
information contact High Perfor- 
mance Systems in Hanover, New 
Hampshire, at 603/643-9636. 

— David Morganstein 



The Color of Information 




Well-conceived Macintosh 
software flattens a progmm’s 
feature set to make the most 
complex capabilities easily acce.ssible. 
Three good examples: Odcsta's sta- 
tistical-analysis tool DataDesk, Scitor’s 
project-management package Project 
Scheduler 4, and 'Hme Arts’ high-end 
paint package Oasis. 

A new company, Pastel Devekjp- 
ment, is finally iiying to do the same 
with .software for managing the dis- 
jointed, chaotic mass of information 
that goes into a day’s work. Pastel 
Manager is essentially an unstructured 
(coiUmues) 



ithink. Therefore . . . 

a In the Dark Ages, tho.se 
wishing to predict the future 
sought out the serv'ices of a 
wizard and a cry'stal hall. In our time, 
these hard-to-secure items have been 
replaced by a Macintosh running 
simulation software. High Perfor- 
mance Systems’ Stella was among the 
first simulation packages available on 
the Mac, and now the company is re- 
[)lacing Stella with the more power- 
ful ithink. (High Performance will 
continue to market Stella to schools.) 

Although the spreadsheet is 
widely thought of as the tool for [:>er- 
forming “what-if” analy.ses, it is not 
versatile enough to handle most 
complex simulation problems. Spe- 
cialized mainframe software has ex- 
isted for many years, but it rec|uires 





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E-Machines' QuickView Studio board lets the Mac display two full-motion video windows at 
the same time. It also supports a variety of special effects, including warps and wraps. 



database with a calendar front end. 
You create new records (they can be 
text items or date items) and assign 
them tags, which you can make up as 
you go along — for example, “dead- 
line,” “address,” or “go(3d hotel.” Kach 
record can have many tags, any tag 
can be used on many records, and you 
can even create hierarchical tags. You 
can then search for information us- 
ing any combination of dates, tags, 
and text-retrieval. 

Pastel Manager lets you display 
your data in many formats — for ex- 
ample, you can arrange a monthly 
calendar, your daily to-do list (in a 
Gantt chart, if you want), and a tele- 
phone list side by side — and save it 
all as a Snapshot that you can call up 
again later. Pastel has a wide range of 
printing options as well, including 
virtual pages that allow you to print 
more than one report — say, your ap- 
pointment list and directions to 
meeting sites — on the same [lage. 




In Pastel Manager tasks can be sorted by 
tags and displayed as a Gantt chart (example 
shows Waterfront Project tasks). 



Future plans for Pastel call for 
other record types such as numeric 
and sound; multiuser scheduling; 
direct access to other companies’ 
F-mail; and, through the magic of 
System 7.0, including flies from other 
applications as records in a Pastel 
database. Pastel Manager will list for 
$295. For more information, contact 
Pastel Development, in New York 
City, at 212/431-3421.-D.L 



Television Board Does 
Multiple Windows 



Aiming to put a video-pnj- 
duciion studio on the Mac- 
intosh, E-Machines has de- 
signed QuickView Studio, a NuBus 
board that displays two full-motion 'IV 
windows simultaneously and offers a 
variety of special effects. The board 
and its software are intended for cre- 
ating real-time multimedia presenta- 
tions on the desktop. 

The QuickView Studio board’s 
windows show different video 
sources, which can be RGB, compos- 
ite video, or S-VHS input in either the 
standard NTSC format or the Euro- 
pean PAL format. The board’s special 
effects include warps, wraps, 3-D ro- 
tations, and horizontal and vertical 
flips. The device also supports text 
overlays and masks for titles. Output 
from QuickView Studio can be im- 
ported into applications such as 
MacroMind Director for the creation 
of animations. 



VIRUS XWATCH 



Current viruses, Trojan horses, 
and worms affecting the Macim 
tosh community. 



CDEF 



Typo: Virus 

First listed in Virus Watch: 12/90 
Info: Infects desktop file. 

Impact: Nondestructive; can cause 
crashes. 



MDEF2 



Type: Virus 

First listed in Virus Watch: 12/90 
Info: an MDEF (Garfield) clone. 
Impact: Nondestructive; can cause 
crashes; infects both System file 
and applications. 



Unnamed PostScript Hack 



Type: Trojan Morse 
First listed in Virus Watch: 11/90 
Info: Disables PostScript printers; 
requires replacing a chip on the 
printer’s system board. 

Impact: Destructive. © 



MDEF (a.k.a. Garfield) 



Type: Virus 

First listed in Virus Watch: 10/90 

Info: Bears no resemblance to 

\X03EF. 

Impact: Nondestructive. Can cause 
crashes; infects both System file 
and applications. 



Steroid 



Type: Trojan Horse 
First listed in Virus Watch: 10/90 
Info: Steroid is a disk-destroying 
INIT circulated with the false claim 
that it speeds up QuickDraw on 
Macs with 9-inch screens. 

Impact: Destructive. © 



QuickView Studio displays digital 
video at 16 bits per pixel and at the 
standard broadcast rate of 30 frames 
per second. 'I'he board and software 
are compatible with E-Machines’ 16- 
inch and 19-inch color monitors, and 
with Apple’s 13-inch color monitor. 
QuickView Studio will work with any 
monitor that is compatible with 32- 
bit QuickDraw and that also can ac- 
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The Mac has always 
had great potential in 
graphic arts. But until 
now, no one has really 
provided a tool to unleash it. There has 
always been some form of mechanical 
trade-off imposed by input devices that 
inhibited artists from letting their 
imaginations flow naturally. 

Now, Wacom introduces a totally 
“real” graphic tool, one that let’s you 
interact with the Mac as intuitively as 
you would with a canvas. With Wacom’s 
cordless, pressure-sensitive stylus your 
will is converted through manual pres- 
sure to line width, spray density, color 




The Wacom cordless, pressure-sensitive stylus. 



change and other programmable effects. 
This allows you to create “real time” 
artistic images free of the artificiality 
and limitations of other input devices. 
And since the Wacom stylus has neither 
cable nor battery, it is also ultra-light 
and maintenance free. 

Wacom, a leading name in computer 
graphics worldwide with proven man- 
machine interface technology, invites 
you to a new era in Macintosh graphics 
with a promise: 

Once you experience it, you’ll never 
look back. 



Wacom SD'Series Digitl/.ers: 

• AO to A5, square or rectangular • Surface types: standard, magnetic, 
electrostatic, nr traiisparciit menu panel • I’ninling devices: Stroke- 



type, or nonstrokc-type cordless stylus, pressure sensitive slylus, l-button 
or 12-button cordless cursor • Driver software: ADI dri\t!r, mouse 
drivers, Windows drivers, Macintosh driver • Compalllrlllty: PCs. 
Macintosh, and workstations. 



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MicroNet Technology has 
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together offer the greatest speed of 
any hard drive subsystem for the 
Macintosh, the company says. The 
heart of the new subsystems, called 
the Micro/Sync series, is the Micro/ 
NuPort, a SCSI-2 controller based on 
an NCR chip set. SCSI-2 offers signifi- 
cantly higher transfer rates than cur- 
rent SCSI, but has not yet been com- 
pletely finalized as a standard. 
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to be a problem, as it considers the 
SCSI-2 specification to be essentially 
completed. 

For its fastest subsystem, called 
the SB-644NP, MicroNet will combine 
the Micro/NuPort synchronous drive 
controller with a 644MB 5Ki-inch hard 
drive made by Imprimis. The Impri- 
mis drive has an average access time 
of about 18ms and a data-transfer 
rate of 24MHz. Now available, the 
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of two of the 644MB drives spliced 





Texas Instruments' microLaser XL is a 16- 
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Tl Printer Races at 16 
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H At the end of October, Texas 
Instruments announced a 
low-cost PostScript laser 
printer that cranks out up to 16 pages 
per minute. Called the microLaserXL, 
the printer incorporates a Sharp print 
engine and a TI controller with a 
12.5MHz 68000 processor. The con- 
troller also includes a bit blitter — 
hardware that helps move the data 
around faster so that processing time 
is less of a limiting factor. 

When opemting on an AppleTalk 
network (using an optional AppleTalk 
interface), the microLiser XL can au- 
tomatically switch between printer 
emulations using a protocol that TI 
developed in conjunction with Adobe. 
To change the emulation, the u.scr 
types in an escape sequence or 
batches an ASCII file that’s sent to the 
printer before the document file. 



Currently the printer supports Diablo, 
ProFrinter, and HP PCL emulations. 

The microLaser XL produces the 
usual 300-by-300-dpi resolution. It 
comes with a 250-sheet paper-feed 
tray and can accommodate an op- 
tional 500-sheet tray and an optional 
envelope feeder. The standard tray 
can hold either letter- or legal-size 
paper. When the standard S-shaped 
paper path is selected, the pages 
come out facedown on top of the 
printer. For less curling, or for heavier 
stock, transparencies, and envelopes, 
there is also a straight-through paper 
path with an extendable support that 
holds the printed pages. 

The new print drum is rated to 
last for 60,000 pages, the developer 
for 30,000 pages, and the toner for 
6000 pages. Longer life for the 
consumables means you won’t have 
to change them constantly, despite 
the higher speed of the printer. 

TI expects to ship the micro I^ser 
XL in November or December. The 
basic system with 1.5MB of ILAM, 
Adobe Type Manager, parallel inter- 
face, and 17 fonts will be $3499. A 
microLaser XL with 35 fonts and 
Adobe PostScript will be $4599. The 
printer also includes two font-car- 
tridge slots. TI says it intends to offer 
a SCSI interface option so users can 
add a hard drive for spooling and for 
downloadable fonts. For more infor- 
mation, call Texas Instruments in 
Austin, Texas, at 800/527-3500. — T.M. 
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Seeing Is Learning 

Is a piaiirc Mill worth a 
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etary sciences and education at the 
University of Arizona. Image process- 
ing software now available for per- 
sonal computers can manipulate 
{photographs, convert comjplex scien- 
tific data to visual form, and bring 
out ihe hicklen features in both ty{Pes 
of imager\'. 

“Images convey information to ihe 
brain orders of magnitude faster than 
anything else," Greenberg argues. “So 
why not Li.se them to leach?” With a 
$600, 000 grant from the National 
Science Foundation and $157,000 
worth of hardware donated by Ap- 
|p|e. Greenberg and his colleagues, 
Robert Strom and Steven Croft, 
have launched an e.\|Perimental pro- 
gram to use imagery anti image jpro- 
ce.ssing .software to teach high .school 
.science. 

Uist summer, they taught 30 hand- 
{Picked high .school teachers how to 
use the imaging software on the Mac 
II.x. just as it is used in {planetary sci- 
ence, astronomy, earth .science, and 
biomedical research, ihe teachers 
learned how to change contrast and 
color to bring out hidden features of 
images; to stretch, move, and copy 
pieces of an image; to measure the 



length, altitude, and 
angle of image fea- 
ture.s; and to filter the 
image to bring out 
shackpvvs or smooth it 
to eliminate distract- 
ing information. 

In September, the 
groufp of teachers re- 
turned to their clas.s- 
rooms et|ui|P(Ped with 
Mac.s and with CD 
ROMs full of data and 
imagery contributed 
by NASA and by Uni- 
versity of Arizona sci- 
enti.sts. The contents 
of the tliscs ranged 
from images tpf the 
solar system to im- 
ages of chromosomes 
in the nucleus of a 
cell. 'Fhe teachers are now showing 
their students how to animate images 
of a rat’s beating heart; how up hunt 
for asteroids near earth in images 
collected by the S[pacewaich camera 
at Kitt Peak, Arizona; and how to use 
the image {processing system to sat- 
isfy their own curiosity. Because they 
are using data anti imagery not yet 
fully analyzed, the students could 
even di.scover something that {Profes- 
sional .scientists have not yet .seen. 

“It’s a way to .seduce kids into 
math and .science,” says Greenberg, 
“because image mani{Pulation at its 
base is a mathematical operation. 
They may not be thinking about math 
in the beginning, but as they manipu- 
late images, they will start thinking in 
mathematical terms.” 

.All fine and dandy for suburban 
kids in wealthy schools full of com- 
{PLiters, right? Wrong. 'Phe majority of 
students involved in the project are 
in Arizona's and New .Mexico’s rural 
and city schools, which are attentled 
by many 1 lis{panic and Native .Amer- 
ican children. Though Professor 
Greenberg believes that many kids are 
visually oriented, he especially wants 
to reach those stutlents who, because 
of language or cultural background, 
res{Pond more quickly to imageiy than 
they do to more conventional lan- 
guage-based learning. 

The image {Processing software 
being u.sed in this e.x{Periment is Im- 
age, a {Public-domain program devel- 



(P{Ped by the National Institutes of 
Health. It requires a color .system with 
at least 4MB of memory. For further 
information, contact Richartl Green- 
Iperg, at 602/621-6940 or 602/621- 
7821. — Ann Garrison 



Draw by Numbers 

Visual Btisine.ss Systems got 
a bad start in the Macintosh 
market with Visual Busine.ss 
No. 5, a pre.sentation gra{pliic.s {pack- 
age whtpse lack of {Planning and pre- 
senting t(Pols made it easy {prey for 
More 11 and Persuasion. Now the 
coni{pany is reentering the Mac arena 
with GraphMaster, a full-featured 
gniphing {Package that incorporates 
\T3 No. 5’s design tools and a num- 
ber-crunching worksheet to use while 
graphing. 

G r a p h M a s t e r ’ s 2 5 6 - c ( p 1 u m n s - b y - 
2500-rows table ini{Ports data in many 
formats, including native F.xcel 2.2. It 
can calculate standard deviations and 
running sums, and reference other 
cells in formulas; formulas can be 
saved for use in other gra{Phs. 

GraphMaster can create a wide 
range of 2-D and 3-D gra{phs. includ- 
ing contcpur, tlouble-)'-axis, and {Polar 
graphs. You can use images and icons 
in {Place of bars to create {Pictograms; 
overlay charts or show several chans 
side by side; a{pply 2- or 3-color ram{Ps 
to any object; and .set axis .scales, tick 
marks, legends, and labels. Graphs 
can then be ungrou{Ped and mani{Pu- 
lated like PICT objects. .All formatting 
can be savetl In a libraiy to a{p{p|y to 
cpther data .sets. 

Gra{ph.Master will list for $295. 
For more information, contact Vi- 
sual Busine.ss Systems in Atlanta at 
4()4;‘956-0325.— D.L. 

(continues) 





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a .series of /VVAs, OA*s, and /V07.s, in 
Boolean statements. In concept re- 
tiieval, the user creates a tree chart 
of .search terms and weights each 
word’s importance; Topic u.ses the 
ranking to sort found documents by 
importance or ignore documents be- 
low a u.ser-definable threshold. Filters 
extract text from most document for- 
mats and display it for users who 
don't have the original applications; 
and tjuerie.s can be saved, fine-tuned 
by experts, and distributed to less- 
skilled u.sers in a big organ izjition. 

Topic u.ses a client-server archi- 
tecture in which each .serv'er — each 
machine available for other machines 
to search on a network — indexes ev- 
ery^ word in all the files it stores. Us- 




ers can attach searchable text notes 
to images, sounds, and other nontext 
files to make them available for Topic 
.searches. Machines can be both cli- 
ents and serv'ers, but for the Mac and 
DOS, Verity has only client .software; 
.serv'd* software is available for OS/2, 
UNIX, and V/\X/VMS. 

Topic has several extra features: 
Topic UyperLink lets users create 
hypertext links between tlocuments, 
Topic Real-Time anal>'zes information 
received in any electronic formal — 
news wires, stock quotes, electronic 
mail — and shuttles the Information to 
users who.se search cjiieries are ap- 
propriate; Topic SQL-Bridge provides 
access to relational tlaiabases such as 
Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, and Informix. 

To operate, Tb[:)ic requires a file- 
sharing network. Retrieval diem .soft- 
ware for the Mac lists at $695; full 
server-client configurations range 
from $15,000 to SI 50,000. For more 
information, contact Verity in Mcmn- 
tain View. California, at 4 1 5,'960-7600. 
— Jonathan Cassell 



NetWare Now Supports 
AppleTalk Phase 2 




For those who want better 
acce.ss to DOS or OS/2 files 
over a network, Novell has 
added suppori for AppleTalk Pha.se 2 
to its NetWare for Macintosh, the 
software bridge to its NetWare net- 



work operating system. NetWare for 
Macintosh 2.0 now links to IBM PC- 
based serv'ei*s over Ethernet and To- 
ken Ring networks. The software in- 
cludes a DA that lets you do more 
seiwer administmtion from a Mac. You 
can now' set security levels for files 
and folders, view print cjiieues, and 
control printing. NetW'are for Macin- 
tosh is al.so now compatible with 
AppleTalk Filing Protocol. Another 
feature lets you store files and fold- 
ers on a 3H6-based server. 

.NetW'are for Macintosh 2.0 started 
shipping in September. It recjuires 
Novell’s Netware 2.15 network oper- 
ating system. U.S. customers who 
bought NetWare 2.15 after August 1, 
1990, can get NetWare for .Macintosh 
2.0 for free by calling 800/873-283U 
For those who bought NetW^are 2.15 
before August 1, the update cost is 
$200. For more information, call 
Novell in Provo. Utah, at 801/379-5900 
or 800/^53-1267.— T.M. 



Calendar Cornucopia 






/\ flood of calendar and 
group-.scheduling utilities is 



upon US: Alarming Events, 
CalenDAr, Plani.soft, and Pastel Man- 
ager are joining updates of Smart 
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DA stands apart from this group: it 
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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



153 






How I Discovered the 
Ultimate Macintosh 
Learning Experience 

The true story of someone who wanted to learn how to 
use the Macintosh in business ... and how 
he almost went crazy doing it. 




Randall D. Smith, President of 
Inc. invites you to a unique learning 
experience to be held in your area. 



A few years ago I bought a 
new Porsche 911. As I was read- 
ing through the literature I came 
across an interesting statement. It 
said: “the only limitation this 
automobile has is the driver!” 

I must admit that I felt the 
same way when I bought my 
Macintosh computer. I was like a 
lot of first time owners in that I 
never read the manuals. I simply 
popped in the disks and figured 
out the basics on my own. After 
having used an IBM for three years 
I was thrilled to be able to accom- 
plish the Mac basics without tak- 
ing a six month Lotus course! 

Over the next few months I 
happily used my Mac for letters, 
simple spreadsheets, check books, 
afew graphics, and for games. But 
as a business owner, way in the 
back of my mind, I knew that there 
was a whole lot more the computer 
and the software could do if they 
just had someone else behind the 
mouse. 

I realized I needed training to 
get the most out of my computer. I 
first tried reading the manuals. At 
some point in school they con- 
vinced me that I’m a fairly bright 
fellow. But after nights of reading 
manuals I simply didn’t under- 
stand what I was reading. 

My next step was to visit my 
local Apple dealer for help. He 



was friendly enough, but made it 
fairly clear that his interest was in 
selling computers, not teaching me 
how to use them. He did mention 
however, that there was some 
training available at $75 per hour. 
I had already paid for one college 
education and didn’t really have 
the budget for another! 

Next 1 subscribed to all of the 
Mac Magazines. Most (including 
this one) were very interesting. 
After a while though, I found 
myself reading the ads more than 
the articles. T wasn’t interested in 
advanced graphics, HyperCard 
stacks, or MS-DOS connectivity. 
It seemed like more and more of 
the articles were written to the 
advanced user - which was defi- 
nitely not me. 

My last resort was a Mac user 
group. These were great people 
who were extremely bright and 
could quote the electrical diagram 
of the Mac backwards and for- 
wards. But the group was too 
advanced for me. I was stuck! 

In marketing, you are taught 
to “find a need and fill it”. I 
definitely saw a need for good, 
practical instruction on the Mac 
for the rest of us. I decided to 
provide the answer for Mac users 
myself. In J anuary 88 we presented 
the very first Mac Academy. Since 
then we have had tremendous 
response. MacAcademy boasts 
many unique features: Instruc- 
tors: Instead of sales people or 
programmers we feature only top 
business executives who use the 
Mac daily in their businesses. 



Format: Two full days of instruc- 
tion on the Mac, Excel, Word, 
FileMaker, Works, PageMaker, 
and HyperCard. Schedule: At- 
tendees can design their own per- 
sonalized schedule by choosing 
between 18 different, 2 hour 
workshops. Price: While others 
charge up to $ 1 200 for workshops, 
we offer two full days for only 
$249. Location: MacAcademy is 
held in top hotels in business cen- 
ters across the U.S. Emphasis: 
MacAcademy places training 
emphasis on techniques and busi- 
ness applications of the featured 
software. 

The Results. Over 30,000 
people have attended MacA- 
cademy. On a scale of 1 to 5 they 
have given the experience a 4.7. 
Companies who have attended in- 
clude General Electric, Kodak, 
G.T.E., M.I.T., Honeywell, 
N.A.S.A., Boeing, Citicorp, Mo- 
torola, Mobil Oil, Gillette, TRW 
and 2000 additional corporations. 
Are they happy with MacA- 
cademy? The City of Anaheim 
sent one employee to our first 
workshop and ten to our second. 
We have had over 15,000 people 
volunteer to be references for those 
considering attending. 

What about you? I’d like to 
personally invite you to attend 
MacAcademy. This year we will 
present our dynamic 2 day work- 
shop in over 100 cities intheUnited 
States. For a schedule of our up- 
coming workshops call: 800-527- 
1914. Profit from the Ultimate 
Macintosh Learning Experience. 

©1990 Florida Marketing International, Inc. 



Circle 168 on reader service card 




Benoit Paquin (left) and Gilles Fortin, two 
key minds at Team-Building Technologies. 



CalcnDAi* or Alarming Iivents, and it 
has an unusually flexible and carefully 
thought-out scheduling window. 

With two ciuick clicks in Agent DA 
you can set how many clays of the 
week and how many weeks are dis- 
[ilayed (up to five weeks), or §€-click 
tc3 zoom in on a single day. You can 
mark completed tasks, select all 
uncompleted tasks with a command, 
and drag tasks fre^m day to day. Un- 
fortunately, you can’t select all of a 
single day’s uncc^mj^letcd tasks to 
drag (3ver to tomorrow. Agent DA also 
cannot generate recurring ev'ents or 
split a single event across days. It can 
search on a wide range of criteria and 
print schedules in many formats, us- 
ing Excel’s metasymbols to include 
dates and page numbers in headers 
and footers. 

AgentDA is part of a series of cal- 
endar, group-scheduling, and project- 
management tools from the French- 
Canadian company Team-Building 
Technolc3gies. The next product 
planned is 1’eamSynchro, a multiuser 
calendar with support for splitting and 
intermitting tasks, scheduling facili- 
ties, and checking for time conflicts. 
It will provide password security as 
Planisoft does and display .several us- 
ers’ calendars side by side (unlike 
Plani.soft, which can show only one). 
TeamSynchro will also support do- 
mains, that is, groups such as com- 
mittees, and let individuals manage 
time commitments across several 
domains. 



MACWORLD NEWS 



AgentDA lists for $139; pricing 
for TeamSynchro hasn’t been .set. For 
more inktrmation, call Team Building 
Technologies in Outremont, Quebec, 
Canada, at 514/278-30 1 0.-D.L. 

News Survey: 

Desktop Publishing 

For this month’s suiwey we 
asketl our readers how 
much they nv their organi- 
zations use desktop publishing. Not 
much to (3Lir surprise, nearly 80 per- 
cent of responding readers do some 
type of DTP, supporting the received 
wisdom that casts the Mac mainly In 
the role of a publishing engine. 

Of tho.se ITl’P-using readers, 4S.7 
percent say they put out newsletters, 
•45.5 percent produce brochures, 11.3 
percent publish books, 10 percent 
make catalogs, and 8.2 percent cre- 
ate magazines. -iO.5 percent of DT’Pers 
say they have other uses. (The figures 
add up to more than 100 percent be- 
cause the question allowed multiple 
responses.) 

51 percent of readers who desk- 
top publish say that in an average 
month they personally spend at least 
20 hours doing DTP. That breaks 




down into 27.2 percent of D'l’Pers 
reporting 20 to 49 hours, and 23.8 
percent putting in 50 hours or more. 

For art, 62.8 percent of the re- 
spondents .said they include charts 
(Dr graphs, 57.7 incorporate line art, 
53 percent u.se clip art, and 34.9 per- 
cent publish photographs. As you 
might expect, 80.9 percent produce 
black-and-white output, while 25-5 
percent print in two colors, 9.4 per- 
cent use three colors, and 20.5 per- 
cent do four-color printing. (Multi[Dle 
responses again were possible for 
both (Df the above questions.) 

Given the number of readers who 
say they desktcDp (Dublish in black and 
white, it’s not .so surprising that 48 
percent say they use an SF. The next 
most pcDpular .system is the Ilex at 36.9 
percent, with the Mac Plus clcD.se be- 
hind at 34.9 percent. (Once again, 
multiple answers were permitted.) 

For output, 81.9 percent of re- 
spcDndents say they use a standard 
laser printer at 300 dpi, 21.5 percent 
say they print on an imagesetter at 
about 1200 dpi, 10.4 percent use a 
high-rescDlution imagesetter at about 
2500 dpi, and 8.4 percent say they 
produce their hard copy cdii a high- 
resoluticDii laser printer at about 400 
dpi. — T.M. □ 



Deskiop publishing Survey Highlights 






Percentage of readers using each Macintosh model for desktop publishing 


Mac SE 




,1 48.0% 


Mac Ilex 




36.9% 


Mac Plus 




34.9% 


Mac II 




29.5% 


Mac SE/30 




27.9% 


Mac llci 




20.8% 


Mac llx 




13.8% 


Mac llfx 




7.7% 


Mac 512K (KE) 




4.7% 


Mac Portable 


nn 

Hours individuals spend per month on desktop publishing 


4.4% 


; 50 or more 




23.8% 


20-49 




27.2% 


10-19 




22.5% 


1-9 




16.4% 


none 




9.1% 




1 i ; • : 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 • M t . 1 tl 1 M M 1 I 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 

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155 



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2 MB 


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2MiMB 


Remove only two 256K SIMMs, install 
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4 MB 


Replace all four 256K SIMMs with four 
IMSIMMs. 


To upgrade an 
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Ilex, orSEaOtothls 
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Do this: (install in multiples of four 
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4 MB 


Remove all four existing 256K SIMMs, 
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SMB 


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interFACE 249. 

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MacGallery 27. 

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MediaTracks™ CD ROM 319. 

Innovative Data Design 

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Letraset 

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ImageStudio 139. 

MacroMind 

MacroMind Director 2.0 439. 

Media Maker Call 

Metro ImageBase (Full Line Available) 

Art Deco or People ea. 85. 

Newsletter Maker or Business ea. 85. 

Micro Frontier 

Enhance 235 



LYNX Turbo Trackball 

Uses Honeywell aerospace tech- 
nology to give precise fingertip 
control over cursor movement. 
Just spin the trackball and the 
cursor flics aaoss the saeen, 
quickly and accurately to where 
you want it. Great for desktop 
publishing, CAD/CAM. grapliics 

Rapport, Drive 2.4, 1200 & 360 
(Kennect Technology) 

Plug Kcnnect’s New 5.25'' Drives, Drive 1 200 and Drive 360 into Rapport to 
read, write & initialize 1 .2 Mb. or 360K MS DOS & Apple II 140K ProDOS. 
Drive 2.4. plugged into Rapport, is a 3.5 ' Diskette Drive which reads, writes & 
initializes all Mac & IBM formats, expands 800K disketes to 1 .2 Mb & High 
Density Diskettes to 2.4 Mb. Rapport alone enables older Macs to read 720K 
MS-D(DS on the internal floppy drive or read & write 720K on an external 
Apple 800K Drive, (diskdrives/boards). Drive 2.4 $329. Drive 360 & 1200 
$265 each. 



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LabelWfiter 

The palm -sized LabelWriterputs 
anything you can aeate with 
your Mac onto a 1 "x 3- 1/2" ther- 
mal label (130 per roll). The 
exclusive print driver software 
lets you print directly from your 
database . word processor or any 
other application. In vertical or 
horizontal format. $185. 



Andrew Tobias' Managing Yottr 
Money 3.0 

The most innovative personal 
finance package for the Mac. Its 
six main divisions remind you 
of important dates, manage 
income and checking, manipu- 
late tax records, evaluate future 
plans, manage your investment 
portfolio and calculate net worth. 
Comes with lots of on-line help 
and comprehensive manuals. 
$135. 













NEWl The DataDesk Switchboard 
(Datadesk International) 

RnaUy, a keyboard that puls power and comfort within reach! The Switch- 
board is the first user-configurable keyboard. It allows users to arrange the 
Alpha, Cursor and Numeric keypads into the most comfortable positions for 
individual computing needs. Additional input devices (trackball, vertical 
function keys, digitizer tablet & macro keys) replace existing keypads or can 
be added. Switchboard’s flcxibilily allows it to evolve v/ith your specific 
computing needs while preserving desktop space. Modules available, (in- 
put/output) $175. 



Quark XPress 3.0 

New measurement and page 
palettes provide interactive on- 
screen access. A library stores 
frequently used items and a 
pasteboard provides a work 
area next to each page Rotate, 
text and graphics in 0.00 1 de- 
gree increments up to 360 de- 
grees. Color trapping ensures 
precise color printing. $529. 



3 in Three 

3 in Three is a rarity.. .a totally 
original concept that combines 
interactive storytelling and 
puzzle solving in a way never 
before realized on a Mac. 3 in 
Three features 80 head-scratch- 
ing puzzles and 60 animated 
scenes. $33. 






Harpoon 

As N.ATO Task Force Com- 
mander you must deploy subs, 
ships and aircraft to locate, 
engage and defeat the Soviet’s 
northern battle fleet, poised and 
awaiting your next move. At 
your disposal are a database of 
over 100 NATO and Soviet 
vreapons systems, a Staff As- 
sistant and more. $39. 



Multi Ad Services 




Multi-Ad Creator 


865. 


Paracomp 




DrawTools 


62. 


Film Maker 


439. 


ModelShopl.1 


375. 


Swivel 3D Professional 1 .0 


439. 


Swivel ART 


87. 



Silicon Beach 

Digital Darkroom 2.0 248. 

Super 3D 2.1 339. 

SuperPaint 2.0 135. 

Solutions, Inc. 

Curator 87. 

Somak 

LaserArt CD-ROM #1 or #2 ea. 62. 

Sharpen Up 62. 

Strata 

StrataVISION 3d 375. 

Strategic Mapping, Inc. 

Atlas Map Maker 4. 5 369. 

Studiotronics 

Colorset 1.5 229. 

SuperMac 

PixelPaint 2.0 225. 

PixelPaint Professional 2.0 389. 

Tactic Software 

Art Clips Vol. 1 or Vol. 2 Call. 

T/Maker 

Click Art Business Images 32. 

EPS Illustrations 82. 

Business Cartoons 33. 

Zedcor 

DeskPaint 3.0 and DeskDraw 1 1 5. 

HARDWARE & 
PERIPHERALS 

Aapps 

DigiVideo B&W 399. 

DigiVideo Color 689. 



Co Star 

Label Writer 185. 

Cutting Edge 

1 9" Two Page Monitor 959 

Hewlett Packard 

HP DeskWriter 779. 

MegaGraphics Display Systems 

Rival 2001 System for Mac II 1 269. 

Rival 3001 System for Mac SE/30 . 1 269. 

Rival SE System for Mac SE 1269. 

Rival Plus System for Mac Plus 1310. 

1 9" Color 2008 Hi-Res'Mac II 4459. 

1 6" Color 2008 Hi-Res/Mac II 3495. 

Grayscale 2008/Mac II 2195. 

Grayscale 3008/Mac SE/30 2195. 

Microtek 

Microtek MSF-300GS Scanner 1 589. 

Microtek MSF-300ZS Scanner 1 998. 

NEC (Full line available) 

Intersect CDR-35 399. 

Qume 

Crystal Print Publisher li 2900. 

Seikosha America 

Seikosha Printer (dot-matrix) 235. 

Sharp (full line available) 

The Wizard -7000 219. 

The Wizard OZ 7200 (64K RAM) 255. 

ThunderWare 

LightningSean 400 385. 

ThunderScan Plus 199. 

HYPERWARE 

Bantam 

Complete HyperCard Handbook 22. 



Mouse Pads (Computer GtHware) 

For sophistication during hours-and ex- 
citement after! Ex- 
ecutive Pads put the 
elegance of marble on 
your desk. Choose 
from White Italian 
Marble, Green 
Marble, Granite, and 
even Kentucky 
Burlwood. After the 
grind why not invite a 
Bikini-clad California 
GirlorVoflcyBaU 
Hunk over to your 
Bachelor or Bache- 
lorette Pad? $12. 

The truly daring may 
even opt for an 
exciting Indiana 
Jones adventure. 

$13. MaeV/arehouse 
is now your exclusive 
mailorder source for new Mickey Mouse 
& Dick Tracy mouse pads! $13. 
(accessories) 

Beacon Technologies 

HyperBible International Version 1 75. 

HyperBible King James Version 145. 

DataDesk International 

HyperDialer 32. 

MicroMaps 

HyperAtlas 59. 

Silicon Beach 

SuperCard 1 .5 205. 

Symmetry 

HyperDA 1.2 45. 

INPUT/OUTPUT 

Altra 

Felix ADB 127. 

Basic Needs 

Cordless Mouse 99. 

Typist New 499. 

Calcomp 

WIZ Tablet 159. 

WIZPen 57. 

WIZ Templates 19. 

CH Products 

Mach IV Plus Mouse/Joystick 51 . 

Mirage Adaptor 35. 

Roller Mouse ADB 75. 

DataDesk Inti. 

DataDesk Switchboard 1 75. 

Mac 101 Keyboards 129. 



Metro ImageBase Electronic Clip Art 
(Metro ImageBase) 

Liven up your documents v/ilh profes- 
sional-quality electronic clip art from Metro 
ImageBase! Qassy and up-to-date, they 
make your newsletters, presentations, re- 
ports and brochures communicate more 
effectively. Each of Metro's 14 packages is 
topic-related and contain 100 images-each 
drawn at 300 dpi for maximum resolution. 
Packages available include: ReportMaker, 
Business Graphics. Computer & Technol- 
ogy. NewslettcrMaker and 10 more, 
(graphics). $85. 

Forte Communications 

Remote Keyboard/Mouse 289. 

Kensington 

New Turbo Mouse 109. 

Keytronic 

MaePro Keyboard 118. 

Koala 

MaeVision 3.0 269 

Kraft 

ADB Joystick Premium III (SE&II) 49. 

QuickStick 39. 

Trackball 79. 



Persuasion 2.0 (Aldus) 

Persuasion streamlines the process of cre- 
ating desktop presentations. Just type 
your ideas into a pre defined outline tem- 
plate and Persuasion automatically pre- 
pares your slides. Emphasize important 
points with any of its pre-defined charts 
and graphs. Give the command and Per- 
suasion will formal speeches to match 
presentations and even print audience 
handouts. Use its slide show mode to 
make smooth, professional presentations. 
Persuasion comes with 1 5 different wipe/ 
dissolve effects and includes drivers for 
most popular printers and film recorders, 
(business). $329. 



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The Mouse Systems 
little Mouse' 



LYNX 

LYNX Turbo Trackball 59. 

MicroSpeed 

MacTracADB New 75. 

MacTracDBQ 62. 

Micro Touch 

The UnMouse 189. 

Mouse Systems 

TrackBallADB 69. 

Little Mouse 75. 

Practical Solutions 

Mouse Master 39. 

Summagraphics 

Bit Pad Plus 319. 

LANGUAGES 

Digitalk, Inc. 

Smalltalk/V MAC 125. 

Shana Corporation 

Inside Out 369. 

Symantec 

THINK’S C 4.0 or Pascal ea. 165. 

Zedcor 

ZBasic 5.0 99. 

MEMORY UPGRADES/ 
ACCELERATORS 

1 MEG SIMMS 

Low Profile. 100ns High Quality 

Single In-Line Memory Modules 59. 

For MacPortable 435. 

For llfx -80ns 109. 

For LaserWriter II NTX • 80ns 109. 

Dove (full line available) 

MaraThon 030 Accelerators 529. 

MacSnap524E 185. 

MacSnap 524S 239. 

MacSnap 548S 499. 

MODEMS/FAX 

Abaton 

lnterFax12/48 265. 

InterFax 24/96 419. 

Best Data Products 

SmartOne 2400/1 200 139. 

Dove 

DoveFax desktop 299. 



Trackball ADB 
(Mouse Systems) 

Mouse functionality in a fraction 
of the space. Use Trackball ADB 
to quicWy flip through menus or 
glide instantly across the screen. 
Its ergonomic design provides 
hours of comfort while delivering 
smooth, accurate, cursor 
positioning. $75 
Little Mouse 

Great for grapliics. CAD. busi- 
ness and more. Little Mouse Is 
22% smaller. 38% lighter and 
provides over 50% more resolu- 
tion and control than other Apple 
mouse alternatives. It combines 
advanced optical technology 
with the latest CMOS analog 
digital chip design to deliver a wonderfully 
compact and accurate input device, (in- 
pul/output). $69. 

Global Village 

Teleport 129. 

Hayes 

Smartmodem 2400 349. 

Smartmodem 9600 (V series) 729 

Power User*'’ 

2400 baud modem 99 

24/96 Mini Send Fax 149 

24/96 Mini Send/Receive Fax 149 



Prometheus 

MaxFax 309. 

2400 MFax 209. 

ProModem 2400 SE Int 209. 

ProModem 2400M 199. 

ProModem 2400M II 205. 

Travel Modem 205. 

Supra 

Supra Modem 2400 119. 

MUSIC AND SOUND 

Altech 

MIDI Interface 59. 

Coda 

MacDrums 31. 

Perceive 49. 

Electronic Arts 

Deluxe Music Construction 2.5 85. 

Deluxe Recorder 99. 



SmartBundle (T/Maker) 

NEW! A total solution for first-time Macin- 
tosh buyers. A collection of four easy-to- 
use. award -v/inning applications in one 
bundle at an incredible price! Includes 
WriteNow 2.2 for wordprocessing. Full 
Impact 1.1 for spreadsheet and charting. 
SuperPaint 2.0 lor painting and drawing 
and RecordHoIder^ for database man- 
agement. Also includes Smart - 
Bundle Launch, a customized 
version of DT Launch which al- 
lows easy access to each appli- 
cation. (business) $219. 



Farallon''* 

MacRecorder2.0‘“*’' (records sound) 159. 

MacRecorder Invoice Digitizer 99. 

Passport Designs 

NoteWriterll2.3 325. 

Passport MIDI Interface 89. 

Primera Software 

Different Drummer 59. 

Repertoire 

Music Publisher 359. 

Resonate 

Listen 2.0 62. 

Tactic Software 

Sound Clips Vol. 1 ,2, 3, or 4 ea.49. 

SECURITY & 

VIRUS PROTECTION 

ASD Software, Inc. 

FlleGuard2.5 139. 

FileGuard Office 5-pack 349. 

FileGuard Office 10-pack 579. 

Fifth Generation 

Disk Lock 118. 

Kensington 

Pass Proof 69. 

Kent Marsh 

MacSafell 107. 

NightWatch 86. 

QuickLock 34. 

Mainstay 

AntiToxin 59. 



SmartOne 2400/1200 Modem 
(Best Data Products) 

Wlien you need a 2400 
baud modem, the 
SmartOne 2400/1200 
provides an economi- 
cal alternative. For less 
than the cost of some 
1 200 bps units, you get 
a Hayes compatible 
modem with auto 
answer/originate. 300, 
1200 and 2400 baud 
operation, pass- 
through phone jack, 
speaker with program- 
mable volume, and a 
manufacturer's two- 
year warranty. All user 
options are stored in 
non-volatile memory. 
Includes free Quicklink II communica- 
tions software, modem, cable and Com- 
puServe/Prodigy Start-Up Kit offer, 
(modems) $139. 

Microcom 

Virex 59. 

Virex 10-pack 329. 

Symantec Corporation 

S.A.M 67. 



FastForms2.0 (Power Up) 

Use this powerful forms 
management system to 
quickly create, custom- 
ize. fill. save, archive 
and print professional 
quality custom business 
forms. Then import 
and export data into 
user defined fields to 
perform automatic 
calculations. $105. 
Calendar Creator 
\7iew your customized 
schedule at a glance. 

Gives you control over 
recurring events, event 
order, fonts, printing 
fonnat, multiple sched- 
ule juggling. event lists 
and master schedule 
production. Great for 
individual and group 
time management, 
(business). $38. 



MacSki 
(XOR) 

No Snow? No Problem! MacSki brings 
the slopes to you! The only thing youTl 
need is a little daring while swooshing 
through these runs in digitized sound and 
full color. Select any of up to 20 breath- 
taking layouts or design your own dream 
course using MacSki’s built-in Course 
Editor. Create up to 256 different course 
combinations based on difficulty level, 
snow condition, visibility and wind speed. 
Meet you at the top! (entertainment). $39. 



SPELLING/DICTIONARY 
THESAURUS CHECKERS 

Deneba Software 

BigThesaurus ..64. 

Spelling Coach Pro 3.1 124. 

Electronic Arts 

Thunder II 49. 

Lexpertise 

MaeProof 3.2.1 115. 

LifeTree 

Correct Grammar 49. 

Microlytics 

Word Finder 2.0 34. 

Sensible Software 

BookEnds or Sensible Grammar 51 . 

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 

Abacus Concepts 

StatViewll 279. 

StalView SE-t-Graphics 1 79. 

SuperANOVA 309. 

Wolfram Research 

Mathemalica (SE) 450. 






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MacPro Keyboard 
(Key tronic) 

The Mac Pro keyboard 
feels better. lasts longer 
and offers more features 
for your money. Key 
tronic's new ADB-com* 
patible 105-key MacPro 
features an enlarged L- 
shaped Return key for 
faster, more accurate 
data entry. Dual-legend 
keycaps assure ease of operation in both 
Macintosh and MS-DOS environments. 
Includes a FREE copy of the award win- 
ning macro package Tempo II. Backed by 
a three year manufacturer warranty, (in- 
put/output) $118. 

UTILITIES 



Abbott Systems 

CanOpenerl.1 64. 

Chesire 1 .0 63. 

Aladdin Systems inc. 

Programmer’s Assistants 57. 

Shortcut 46. 

Stuffit Deluxe 63. 

ALSoft 

DiskExpress II 2.04 57. 

MultiDisk 49. 

Master Juggler 64. 



Fifth Generation 

FastBackll 118. 

Suitcase I1 1.2 49. 

SuperLaserSpool 2.0 (single user) ....87. 

SuberSpool 5.0 58. 

ICOM Simulations 

On Cue 35. 

insight Development 

MacPrint 95. 

Magic Software 

AutoSave II 28. 

BackMatic 50. 

Mainstay 

Capture 3.0 45. 

MacFlow3.5 125 

Preferred Publishers 

Personality 53 







American Power Conversion 



Power Chute 69. 

Berkeley System 

After Dark 2.0 24. 

CE Software 

Alarming Events 85. 

QuicKeys2.0 64. 

Caere 

OmniDraft 69. 

OmniPage 2.1 539. 

OmniSpell 69. 

OmniTrace 105. 

Central Point Software 

Copy II Mac 23. 

Mac Tools Deluxe 75. 

Custom Applications 

Freedom of Press 3.0 225. 

Freedom of Press Light 3.0 255. 

Dantz Development 

Retrospect 148. 

Dayna Communications 

DOS Mounter 55. 



HleGtiard 2.5 (ASD Software) 

"FUcGuard stands out. especially for corpo- 
rate users." MacUser May, 1990 Issue 
Protect your Hard drive s and Partitions from 
unauthorized access (including security by- 
pass with a system diskette), copying, and 
erasure; A pplicatlons and Files/Folders (in- 
cluding system folder) from unauthorized 
access, deletion, and/or illegal copying: 
Desktop (including system folder) from 
alterations by unauthorized users; Kggpan 
eye on System Usage with the system users 
log which continuously tracks user/group 
activity, (security) $139. Office 5 Pack 
$349. Office 10 Pack $579. 



Planisofi (ASD Software) 

Planisoft increases workplace productivity 
through detailed management of time and 
resources. Use its intuitive user interface 
and powerful relational database to simul- 
taneously manage and record activity 
concerning hundreds of people, events, 
materials and locations. Juggle multiple 
work group agendas and instantly recall 
your contacts and related data for a given 
period of time. Also tracks time spent on a 
particular account by individual employ- 
ees. Everything is kept confidential 
through multi-level password protection, 
(business). $139. Office 5 pack $579. 
Office 10 pack $839. 



Software Innovations 

Handoff II 52. 

Tele Typesetting Co. 

TScriptv.1.3 95. 

WORD PROCESSORS 
&OUTLINERS 

Claris 

MacWritell 142. 

Microsoft 

Word 4.0 245. 

RIghtSoft 

RightWriter for the Mac 55. 

Tactic 

Magic Typist 49. 

T/Maker 

WriteNow2.2 119. 

WordPerfect Corp. 

WordPerfect Call 




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PDisk Drives (Cat- 



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ting Edge) 

New enii.inced Cutting Edge drives 
deliver quiet, reliable memory with 



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features include two ptiwer outlets, 50- 
pin cable.s for easier daisy chaining, a 
quieter fan. dual fuse surge bufl'er and 
simplified o^x»rnlion manuals. 



Tlie enhanced 45MB Removable is based 
on the same award winning SyQuest 
mechanism that other Ic<iding makers 
offer at twice the pncc. Fjtchangahle 
cart ridges, provide unlimited storage, 
(drives) 45MB Removable: $ 699. 



Power User'^ 2400 baud Modem 

Install a new Power User 2400 baud 
modem and log-on to CompuServe"*^’ 
or any of the exciting on-line services! 
This new, full-fcalurcd modem comes 
complete with everything you need to 
start communicating. It's easy to install 
and ready to use - all cables and MAc- 
l^OWLEDGE communication software 
arc Included. It also has all the features 
you need In a modem, including Auto 



Answer, Auto Dial and Advanced Diagnos- 
tics for error checking. Only $99. 

Power User’*** 24/96 Mini Send Fax 

Nev/I Send Important documents to 
destination fax machines with the Mini 
Send Fax. Mini Send Fax combines the 
tcchnolo^cs of the Power User 2400 bps 
data modem and an Intcrnalionally com- 
patible 9600 bps. Group III fax. Juit 
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THE 



Macintosh 
Family Evolves 

Apple finally offers a selection of Macintosh computers and peripherals 

that combine lower prices with competitive function- 
ality. The question is, are the prices low enough? 



The long-awaited low-cost Macintoshes have 

arrived — five of them. I’d like to be able to 

tell you that you can get a color Mac or Mac 

II power for under 51000. You can't. Chips 

and disk drives still cost too much, and Apple 

is in Cupertino, not the North Pole. 

Although Apple hasn’t figured out how to 
give us tomorrow’s computer today, it has 
lowered prices an impressive $1000 or more 
for all Mac systems except the Portable, the 
SE/30, and the Ilfx. The company has com- 
pletely restructured the Mac family by add- 
ing three new lower-cost machines, cutting 
prices on the Ilci, and abandoning four oth- 
ers. In other words, everything you knew 
about the Macintosh family has changed. 

At first glance, this restructuring is con- 
fusing and unsettling. Some of the changes 
may be hard to swallow. Think of this article 
as a digestive aid. Besides exploring the 

BY LON 



Structure of the new Macintosh family, it 
describes what you get for your money; 
evaluates how the new prices compare with 
those of other personal computers; and ex- 
plains which Macintoshes best suit cenain 
individual needs. 

Comings and Goings 

Here’s a brief overview of the new Macin- 
tosh computers: The Macintosh Classic is a 
redesigned Mac SE with no expansion slot 
and nothing to gloat about beyond its low 
price. The Mac Ilsi is a reduced-height Ilex 
replacement; it has built-in color video but 
only one expansion slot, another repackag- 
ing job with an appealing price. By far the 
most intriguing of the new models is the 
Macintosh LC — a reincarnated Mac II with 
built-in color video for half the money. Its 
low price and pizza-box shape unfortunately 
limit it to a single custom expansion slot. 

The LC and the Classic come with a new 
ADB keyboard. Other new Macintosh 
products include a small color monitor, a 
redesigned monochrome monitor, and two 
expansion cards for the LC — one of which 

POOLE 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



169 





lets the LC work like an Apple lie. The 
Classic and Ilsi were scheduled to ship 
mid-October, and the Mac LC should 
be available January 1991 (the Apple 
He emulation card should ship the 
following March). In other words, ev- 
er>^thing you knew about the Macin- 
tosh family has changed. 

You can recognize the new Macs 
by their curved front panels and by 
some shared internal traits. The new 
computers come with 2 megabytes of 
RAM, preparing them for System 7.0 
when it becomes available next year 
(the Classic is available as a 1MB sys- 
tem as well). System 7.0’s virtual 
memory feature won’t work on the 
Classic and LC, however, because 
neither machine comes with a 
memory-management chip. Other 
features shared by the new machines 
include the 1.4MB SuperDrive for 
floppy disks; space for one internal 
one-third-height hard drive; and 
built-in video. In addition, the LC and 
Ilsi come with microphones for direct 
sound input. 

Shaking the Family Tree 

With the introduction of these new 
family members, say good-bye to the 
two old-timers at the low-end of the 
Macintosh family — the Mac Plus and 
the Mac SE. The Classic boasts all the 
performance and features of an SE 
(except an expansion slot), and yet it 
costs less than the slower, more lim- 
ited Plus. The lost expansion slot 
doesn’t bother me. You’ll still be able 
to upgrade a Classic by clipping an 
expansion board onto the processor 
chip, as is now done with the Mac 
Plus. 

Low price alone isn’t enough. The 
Plus has been $800 cheaper than an 
SE for a year now and yet the SE has 
been the more popular machine. 
Buyers want more performance than 
the Plus delivers. I wonder if they’ll 
be satisfied with the classical perfor- 
mance of the original SE. 

Apple has carefully calculated the 
Classic’s price-performance balance to 
make this new minimal Macintosh an 
attractive deal for those on the tight- 
est budgets. In the basic U.S. retail 
configuration — 1MB of RAM, a 1.4MB 




INGT 



All times are in seconds 



PBOCESSOBTESIS 



DiSKlESIS 



Graphics lasks 



We tested several graphics programs such as 
FreeHand. illustrator, and MacOraw perform- 
ing tasks such as preview, zoom, and fit to 
window. 



Macintosh llfx 


IH 12.2 


Macintosh llci 


nn 22.5 


Macintosh Ilex 


BHH 32.6 


Macintosh Ilsi 


SBBI 29.2 


Macintosh SE/30 


jHWiliii 27.2 


Macintosh II 


40.6 


Macintosh LC 


mmmiam 50.2 


Macintosh SE 
Macintosh Classic 


99.4 

97.9 



10 






Sort4D Database 

To test a repeating random disk access, we 
sorted a 3.2MB 4th Dimension database. 



maib lEsrs 



Macintosh llfx 
Macintosh llci 
Macintosh Ilsi 
Macintosh Ilex 
Macintosh SF/30 
Macintosh II 
Macintosh LC 
Macintosh Classic 
Macintosh SE 




1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I II I n I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 
100 ' ' ' ’ 



Tween Swivel Image 

To test the Mac's ability to handle math- 
ematical operations, we timed a calcu- 
lation-intensive tween in Swivel 30. 



Macintosh llfx 
Macintosh llci 
Macintosh Ilex 
Macintosh SE/30 
Macintosh Ilsi 
Macintosh II 
Macintosh LC 
Macintosh SE 
Macintosh Classic 




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Overall, the Macs placed exactly where you'd think they would — the Macintosh llfx is fastest 
and the Macintosh Classic and SE come in last. The Macintosh ilsi showed a slight advantage 
in graphics tasks over the Macintosh Ilex (the Macintosh SE/30 was even faster because its 



170 



AC W a N L o 



MW 

LAB 



Find/Replace 

For this test, we replaced the word Mac with 
the word Macintosh 1300 times in Word, 
Works, WriteNow, and Mac Write II. 



Scroll 

We tested scrolling response time for docu- 
ments in several applications— Word, Excel, 
Works, PageMaker, Wingz, WriteNow, and 
MacWrhe II. 




26.4 

45.8 



202.1 



Open Files 



To test a one-shot random disk access, we 
opened a wide variety of files by clicking on 
the application's icon. 




Save Word File 

To test disk write times, we used Word's 
Save As function to save a 220K file. 




Recalculate Spreadsheet 

For business users, we recalculated a 
400K Excel spreadsheet and a 1 10K 
Works spreadsheet. 

Q 2.3 

M 4.2 

SB 6.0 

5.9 

SB 6.0 

MB 7.1 

Unable to run Microsoft's spreadsheets 


Redraw Wingz Chart 

Likewise, we tested how long it took 
Wingz to redraw a 33K, three-dimen- 
sional bar chart. 

13.8 

24.3 

MIHIMIM 29.7 

B 30.3 

gggWBBHWI 31.9 

maimema 36.o 

BBBIHWBBM 53.7 


BHHBHHnRHSnSBnHQHS 7 


93.9 


53.1 


94.0 


1 1 1 1 1 


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small black-and-white screen redraws faster). At press time, the Macintosh LC couldn't run Excel or 
Works spreadsheet — Microsoft should have the incompatibility solved by the time the Mac LC ships 
(Times are averaged wherever multiple programs were tested.) 



floppy disk drive, a buili-in 9-inch 
black-and-white monitor, and key- 
board — the Classic lists for 1999. This 
system will be important to users who 
can do without System 7.0. The Clas- 
sic is also available with 2MB of RAM 
and a 40MB internal hard drive for 
$1499. 

One step up from the Classic in 
price, but four steps up in capability, 
is the new Mac LC. The extra $1000 
or so you pay for an LC buys about 
twice the performance and lots more 
expandability. In addition, the LC has 
built-in sound input and video output. 
Keyboard and microphone are in- 
cluded; all you add is a color or 
monochrome monitor. List price of a 
color LC system with 2MB of RAM, a 
40MB hard drive, and Apple’s new 12- 
inch color monitor is about $3000. A 
monochrome system lists for $300 
less. The anticipated street price for 
the color system is about $2200. 
That’s a great price. 

A standard LC provides 256 col- 
ors on Apple’s new 12-inch color 
monitor or 16 colors on the 13-inch 
AppleColor High-Resolution RGB 
Monitor. To get 256 colors on the 13- 
inch monitor, you snap a $249 video 
SIMM board into the LC. The board 
is necessary because the larger 
monitor displays 50 percent more in- 
formation (640 by 480 pixels versus 
512 by 384). On Apple’s 12-inch 
monochrome monitor, which, con- 
fusingly, displays the same amount of 
information as the 13-inch color 
monitor, the LC provides 256 gray 
shades without the video SIMiM. 

Next above the Mac LC in price 
and performance is the familiar Mac 
SE/30. The same size as a Classic, the 
SE/30 is three times faster and more 
expandable. The SE/30 is also the 
cheapest Macintosh able to use all 
System 7.0 features, including virtual 
memory. An SE/30 system with 1MB 
of RAM, a 40MB internal hard drive, a 
built-in 9-inch black-and-white moni- 
tor, and a standard keyboard lists just 
over $4000. With dealer discounts, you 
will probably pay about $2900 for it — 
about what you used to pay for a 
Macintosh SE with 1MB of RAM and 
no hard drive. 



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MACINTOSH FAMILY PROFILE 

Processor 


Data 

Path 


Math 

Coprocessor 


Memory 

Management 

Unit 


Static 

RAM 

Cache 


Dedicated 

I/O 

Processors 


ROM Capacity/ 
Expandable 


MACINTOSH FAMILY 
AS OF JANUARY 1991 
















Classic 


68QOO-^MHz 


24-bit 


■ no 


no 


no 


no 


512K/no 


Portable 


68000-1 6MHr 


24-bit 


no 


no 


no 


no 


256K/k0S 


LC 


68020-18MHZ 


16-bit 


no 


no 


no 


no 


512K/yes 


SE/30 


68030-1 6MHz 


32-bit 


yes 


yes 


no 


no 


256K/yes 


llsi 


68030-2QMHZ 


32-bit 


optional ’ 


yes 


no 


no 


512K/Yes 


ilci 


68030-25MHZ 


32-bit 


yes 


yes 


optional 


no 


512K/yes 


lllx 

DISCONTINUED MACINTOSH 
MODELS AS OF JANUARY < 


68030-40MHZ 


32-bit 


yes 


yes 


yes 


yes 


512K/yes 


128K 


68000-BMHz 


^-bit 


...... ... 


• no 


no 


no 


64ICno 


512K 


68000-8MHZ ? 


24-bit 


■ no , 


■ no 


no 


no 


64K/no 


512KE 


68000-8MHZ 


^ 24-bit 


no 


no 


no 


no 


128K/no 


Plus 


68000-8MHZ : 


24-bit 


no 


no 


no 


no 


128K/no 


SE 


68000-8MHZ 


24-bit 


no 


no 


no 


no 


256K/no 


II 


68020-1 6MMz 


32-bit 


yes 


optional 


no 


no 


2S6K/no 


llx 


68030-1 6MHz 


32-bit 


yes 


yes 


no 


no 


256K/yes 


Ilex 


68030-16MHZ 


32-bit 


yes 


yes 


no 


no 


256K/yes 



' The Portable requires a low-power internal hard drive. 



’ By installing a video upgrade, the LC supports 512 x 382 
(32,000 colors/graysi or 640 x 480 (256 colors/grays}. 

* The llsi requires a $249 adapter to use the expansion 
slot. The adapter includes a math coprocessor. 

* While remaining Plus, SB. Hx. and Ilex models may be 
sold after January I, 1991, they are being phased out. 



The Mac II Line 

The next branch on the family tree 
belongs to the Mac II line. While the 
Ilex has been the most successful 
model of these, sales have been lim- 
ited by a relatively high price. To 
boost sales volume, Apple designed 
the new Mac llsi, which retains the 
best features of the Ilex and even 
delivers a bit more performance but 
costs J1800 to $2300 less (depending 
on configuration). The llsi is housed 
in a smaller box than the other Mac 
lls, leaving less room for expansion — 
the Hex has three expansion slots, one 
of which must contain a video board. 



whereas the llsi has one slot and 
built-in video support for most Apple 
monitors. You have to use the one slot 
for a video board if you need 24-bit 
color or a 2-page monitor, however. 
The basic llsi configuration includes 
2MB of RA.M, a 40MB hard drive, and 
the same type of sound input as the 
.Mac LC. That plus a keyboard and 13- 
inch color monitor costs about $4900 
list, (discount prices should run about 
$3200). A llsi system with an Apple full- 
page monitor costs about the same as 
a color system. List price of a mono- 
chrome system is about $700 less. 

To get the expandability of a Mac 
Ilex you have to buy a Mac I lei. For- 
tunately that's now much easier to do. 
Apple has lowered Ilci prices by 
$1500 — you can now buy a Ilci for 
what a Ilex used to cost. At estimated 
street prices, you'll pay about $5300 
for a .Mac Ilci with 4MB of IL\M, an 



80MB hard drive, a keyboard, and a 
13-inch color monitor. List price on 
that system is about $7900. 

Tlie Ilci is about one-third faster 
overall than the Hex, and iLs perfor- 
mance can be further enhanced by 
adding a static RAM cache board. Both 
the Ilci and the Hex have three ex- 
pansion slots. The slot normally used 
for a video board in a Hex is available 
in many Ilci systems because the Ilci 
has the same type of built-in video 
support as the llsi. The .Mac Ilci is a 
great machine on paper, but in actual 
use it has been plagued with compat- 
ibility problems. .Many of the prob- 
lems have Ix^en fixed by new versions 
of application programs and upgraded 
hardware from other companies. 
Apple says most of these problems 
foreshadow the trouble all Macintosh 
models will have upon switching to 
System 7.0. 



172 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 







RAM 

Capacity 


Expansion 

Slots 


Internal 
Hard Drive 
(Height/Disk Size) 


floppy 

Drive 


Sound 

(Dutput/ 

Input) 


Built-in 

Video 


Video 

Resolution 


Keyboard 
(Included/ 
Connector Type) 






















1MB-4MB 


0 


r/3W- 


1.4MB 


moro/no 


b B w 


512x342 


yes/ADB 




2MB-9MB 


1 (Portable 
direct, 1 modem) 


1-/372’ ' 


1.4MB 


stereo/no 


bB w 


640 X 400 


yes/integral 




2MB-10MB 


1 (020 direct) ' r < 


i 17372- 


1.4MB . ^ ^ 


mono/yes 


color 


2 


yos/ADB 




1MB-32MB 


1 (030 direct). / " , 


any/372- 


1.4MB 


sterBo^o 


b B w 


512x342 


no/ADB 




2MB-17MB 


1 (NuBus/030 
direct ®) 


: 1-/372- 


1.4MB 


stereo/yes 


color 


640 X 480 (256 color/grays), 
640 X 780 (16 grays), 

512 X 382 (256 colors) 


no/ADB 




1MB-32MB 


3 (NuBus) 


any/ 372 - 


1.4MB 


stereo/no 


color 


640 X 480 (256 color/grays), 
640 X 780 (16 grays), 

512 X 382 (256 colors) 


no/ADB 




1MB-32MB 


6 (NuBus) 


any/372", 57*" 


1.4MB 


stereo/no 


none 


varies 


no/ADB 




128K 


0 


none 


400K 


mono/no 


b B w 


512x342 


yos/RJH 




512K 


0 


none 


400K 


mono/no 


b B w 


512x342 


yes/RJ-ll 




51 2K 


0 


none 


800K 


moflo/no 


bB w 


512 X 342 


yes/RJ-ll 




1MB-4MB 


0 


none 


800K ^ 


mono/no 


bB w 


512 X 342 


ye«/RJ-l 1 




1MB-4MB 


1 (SE direct) 


any/ 372 * 


BOOK. 1.4MB 


mono/no 


bBw 


512x342 


no/ADB 




1MB-32MB 


6 (NuBus) 


any/372-. 57*" 


BOOK 


stereo/no 


none 


varies 


no/ADB 




1MB-32MB 


6 (NuBus) 


any/372-. Sy*" 


1.4MB 


stereo/no 


none 


varies 


no/ADB 




1MB-32MB 


3 (NuBus) 


any/372- 


1.4MB 


stereo/no 


none 


varies 


no/ADB 



Price pressure from the llsi below 
and the Ild above will surely squeeze 
the Ilex out of the Macintosh family. 
But there’s c|uite a large gap in price 
betw'een the Ilci and the llsi. Too bad 
Apple didn’t lower the price of the 
Hex and perhaps bundle a video board 
to fill that gaj>. 

The fastest, most expandable, and 
costliest Macintosh remains the iMac 
II6(. On average, it’s 7 times as fast as 
the Classic, 2 times as fast as a llsi, 
and 1.7 times as fast as a Ilci (without 
static R'\M cache). The Mac 1 1 lx comes 
equipped with sLx expansion slots, one 
of which must be used for video. 
Configured with 4MB of RAM, an 80MB 
hard drive, a keyboard, an 8-bit video 
board, and Apple’s 13*inch color 
monitor, a Macintosh iHx system lists 
for about $11,700. Dealer di.scounis 
should bring the street price of that 
system to about $7900. 



Portable and Transportable 

When you think Mac II, the last thing 
to come to mind is portability. But the 
new Mac llsi and the Mac LC are 
smaller and lighter than the Mac Por- 
table. In fact, you could just buy a 
keyboard, monitor, and power cord 
for your home and office, for instance, 
and easily carry' the CPU itself back 
and forth. A llsi with two keyboards, 
one color monitor, and one mono- 
chrome monitor costs no more than 
a Macintosh Portable (which like the 
Ilfx and SE/30 hasn’t changed in price). 
For 5900 less than a Portable, you 
could buy an LC with two color 
monitors and two keyboards. 

Before you place an order for a 
Macintosh LC or llsi to carry back and 
forth daily, however, consider the 
hassle of hoisting monitors at each 
location and of disconnecting and 
reconnecting cables. Tedious? 1 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



should say so, and it wears out the 
connectors. The ADB keyboard con- 
nectors, for example, are rated at 500 
mating cycles. They could wear out 
after a y'ear of twice-daily moves. 
Maybe an enterprising company will 
remove these barriers by making a 
$700 flat-panel display that hinges to 
an LC or llsi — fold it open for viewing, 
fold it closed for carry ing — and a tote 
bag that packs everything without 
disconnecting any cables. 

Buyer's Guide 

Given the many combinations of fea- 
tures, performance, and price, you 
might wonder which .Macintosh is 
right for you. Below, I list the configu- 
rations that best suit a wide variety of 
users. 

General Office For letter and re- 
port writing, basic information man- 
agement, simple graphics, and elec- 

173 




MAC 



Family 




tronic mail, a Mac Classic with a hard 
drive is adequate. Choose an LC or 
SE/30 if you write lengthy documents, 
perform extensive numerical analysis, 
use complex relational databases, or 
simply want a bigger screen. 

Education Applying Apple’s usu- 
al steep educational discount should 
make the price of a Mac Classic (with- 
out hard drive) as low as $500 for 
schools and colleges — very competi- 
tive for a 1MB system with built-in 
networking. Schools that use Macin- 
tosh and Apple II computers can get 
both in one Mac LC with an Apple lie 
emulator board. 

Publishing and Presentations For 
laying out small publications involv- 
ing no color or at most spot color, an 
LC and a monochrome monitor will 
do. If you prepare color presenta- 
tions, get the LC with the video SIMM 
and a 13-inch color monitor. You'll 
handle large publications more easily 
with a Ilsi’s faster performance and 
better video support. Connect Apple’s 
full-page monitor or 13-inch color 
monitor directly or use the expansion 
slot for a 2-page display. If you need 
full 24-bit color, read on. 

Graphic Arts An LC with a 12-inch 
color monitor meets the basic re- 
quirements. A Ilsi gives you room to 
add full 24-bit color, which you’ll want 
eventually. However, 24-bit color 
slows down the screen display quite 
a bit unless the 24-bit video board 
includes a graphics accelerator. You 

174 



can’t add a separate accelerator be- 
cause you already have a 24-bit video 
board in the Ilsi’s one slot. 

Image Manipulation Get the fast- 
est Mac you can afford, at least a Ilci 
and preferably a Ilfx. Forget about 
built-in video because you’ll be add- 
ing a 24-bit video board. 

Multimedia Viewing and Authoring 
For viewing HyperCard productions, 
including those that use CD ROM, CD 
audio, or videodiscs, a Classic is fine. 
Viewing color productions will require 
at least a Mac LC with a 12-inch color 
monitor. Authoring requires more 
power than viewing. An LC with its 
built-in sound input makes a good 
choice for creating HyperCard, 
SuperCard, and Plus stacks. A Macin- 
tosh Ilsi (which also has sound input) 
is a better development system for 
elaborate productions based on 
MacroMind Director. 

Family Computer The LC is the 
best choice for an all-purpose family 
Macintosh. It can easily handle your 
personal business, the children’s 
education, and everyone’s games. 

Keeping Up with the PCs 

Macintosh computers have always 
been considered expensive. Computer 
buyers and software developers have 
long clamored for a less expensive Mac 
but Apple has consistently turned a 
deaf ear. After all, the Macintosh had 
a unique graphical interface that made 
the computer easier to use, reduced 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



training costs, and encouraged devel- 
opment of innovative application pro- 
grams. These advantages made the 
Mac worth more. 

Recent developments on other 
platforms have lost Apple most of 
those advantages. Microsoft Windows 
3.0 software now provides IBM PC 
compatible computers with a very 
similar graphical interface. Software 
developers who were formerly dedi- 
cated to the Macintosh have started 
producing application programs for 
Windows 3.0. Additionally, Apple’s 
dominance in the educational market 
has eroded from 70 percent in 1986 
to 54 percent in 1989. Meanwhile, 
IBM’s share of that market rose from 
5 percent to 30 percent. Apple had to 
lower prices to remain competitive. 

Except for the Classic, the new 
lower list prices for Macintosh com- 
puters are still high compared to IBM 
and Compaq computers. Anticipated 
street prices are competitive with 
those computers, but nobody can 
guarantee what street prices will be. 
To achieve low street prices, Apple 
must keep plenty of computers on 
dealers’ shelves and give dealers large 
enough margins to leave room for 
adequate profits after discounts. Even 
at the proposed street prices, you will 
pay more for any Mac except the Clas- 
sic and LC than for an inexpensive 
clone of an equivalent IBM computer. 

Why Buy a Mac? 

People will continue to buy a Macin- 
tosh for reasons less objective than 
price. Compared to PC compatible 
computers that use Windows 3.0, all 
Macintosh models still have the fol- 
lowing subjective advantages: 

■ Easier setup 

■ Better integrated system software for 
a more consistent interface among 
application programs 

■ Much larger assonment of applica- 
tion programs 

■ Superior display technology, includ- 
ing support for displays of any resolu- 
tion; from two to millions of colors and 
gray shades; and multiple monitors 
(with different gray-scales or color 
depths) 

■ Sound output beyond an alert beep. 







LOWER-COST MACINTOSHES 



13 — 
12 -Z 

11 -z 

12 10-Z 

CD — 

1 9- 



-3 

C 

i 

|S 



8 -Z 
7 “ 
6 ~ 
5 ~ 
4 ~ 
3 

2 £ 
1 — 




55499 

^njn^ m 

^799 $4900 



$6548 







1 1 


$3000 


%)■ 

$1499 

$999 


$1799 


$2798 




Classic 


Mac Plus 


Mac SE 


Mac LC 


2MB/40 


IMB/none 


2MB/40 


2MB/40 




Mac LC Mac SE/30 Portable Mac list Mac Ilex Mac lix Mac llci Mac llfx 



1 MB/none 



IMB/none 



1 MB/40 IMB/none 2MB/40 IMB/none IMB/none 1 MB/80 4MB/none 



With the announcement of three new machines, the Macintosh family 
has undergone dramatic realignment. This table shows the relative 
prices for Macintosh systems that will be available after January 1, 
1991 (in full color) and those that are being phased out (grayed out). 
Prices were calculated for full Macintosh systems and are generally 
expressed as ranges. For instance, the prices for the Macintosh 



Classic (keyboard included) range from $999 for the 1MB model to $1499 
for the model with 2MB RAM and a 40MB hard drive. The prices for the 
Macintosh llfx range from $10,848 for a model with 4MB RAM, no hard 
drive, a keyboard, monitor, and an 8-bit video board to $12,848 for a 
similarly outfitted model with a 160MB hard drive. 



and sound input on tlie LC and Ilsi 
■The Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), 
which supports keyboard, mouse, 
graphics tablets, other input devices, 
and even a modem (suggested maxi- 
mum of three devices per ADB port) 

• SCSI port for chaining up to seven 
hard drives, optical storage, tape 
drives, and other devices (most PC 
systems use a separate slot for each 
storage device) 

• Built-in, easy-to-connect local area 
networking for electronic mail and for 
sharing files, disks, printers, modems, 
and other resources 

These advantages plus Apple’s 
new lower prices will satisfy enough 



computer buyers to make sure the 
Mac retains its market share. To lure 
new customers, some people might 
suggest that Apple license its technol- 
ogy to clone makers so they can make 
cheap Macs. That’s unlikely to happen 
because it would compound Apple’s 
already difficult task of keeping system 
software compatible across all models. 
Other people might urge a more 
complete Mac family — maybe a faster 
version of the Classic, an SE/30 with a 
built-in color monitor, a cheaper 3-slot 
Mac II (a reduced-price, video-in- 
cluded Ilex), a cheaper 6-slot machine, 
a new top-end Mac based on the state- 
of-the-art 68040 processor, and hey. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



how about a lighter portable. For now, 
you have seven models to choose 
from, all but three priced surprisingly 
low. The reduced prices combined 
with the inherent advantages the 
Macintosh family has always enjoyed 
keep Macs competitive, even if most 
of them do still cost more than cheap 
IBM clones. □ 

See Where To Buy under Mac CPU.s and 
Peripherals for contact information. 



Lon Poote is a Macworld 
contributing editor who writes a monthly 
column, Quick Tips. 

175 




MAC 




The Plus and SE will disappear, but the Mac Classic fills the void with 

the power of an SE at a price lower than the Plus's. 



The Macintosh Chussic is ver>' much what it 
looks like — the unexceptional progeny of a 
Mac Plus and an SE. All three have the same 
compact footprint, are light enough to carry 
from place to place, and have an integrated 
9-inch black-and-white monitor. All three of 
the new Macintoshes use 8MHz Motorola 
68000 microprocessors. 

The Classic inherits its other features 
partly from the Plus anti partly from the SE. 
The new machine has a single internal floppy 
disk drive, space for an internal hard drive, 
and an Apple Desktop Bus (Ai^B) connec- 
tor for the included keyboard and mouse. 
There is no expansion slot. Performance is 
ver>' similar to that of the four-ycar-old SE, 
with a few surprises (see ‘'Ranking the 
Macintosh Classic"). The Mac Classic is no- 
ticeably faster than a Plus but even more 
noticeably slower than any other Macintosh. 

BY LON 



What really sets a Mac Classic apart from 
an SE or a Plus is price. A Mac Classic with 
2MB of RAM and an internal 40MB hard 
drive has all the most popular features of a 
Mac SE, and yet it lists for $1499 — 55 per- 
cent less than its predecessor. With no in- 
ternal hard drive and only 1MB of RAM, a 
Classic is still faster and more flexible than 
a Plus, and it lists for $999 (a reduction of 
45 percent). 

Apple achieved these low prices by de- 
signing completely new circuitry, with cost 
reduction a top goal. The new logic board 
is about half the size of the older ones but 
includes all the standard features that Mac 
owners take for granted: a graphical user 
interface in ROM, a SCSI port, two serial 
ports, AppleTalk networking, sound output, 
and memory' expandability. ROM capacity is 
512K on the Mac Classic, but the contents 
are basically the same as the Mac SE’s 256K 
ROM (Apple uses the larger ROM because 
it’s cheaper). ‘‘Classic U)gic" shows the logic 
board, and “Behind a Classic" shows the port 
configuration. 

Another circuit board, called the analog 
Ixiard, contains video circuitry and a power 
supply. The Classic’s analog board bears a 

POOLE 



176 



MACWOntD • DECEMBER 1990 




MAC 



Classic 



superficial resemblance to the Mac 
Plus’s but is completely new. Unlike 
the power supplies in all other Macs, 
which automatically adjust to any AC 
voltage in the world, the Classic’s 
power supply works only with the 
voltage of the country in which it was 
designed to be sold. 

Memory 

The new logic board has 1MB of RAM 
soldered onto it. Another optional 
1MB of RAM is soldered onto an ex- 
pansion board that stands vertically in 
a special socket at the right rear cor- 
ner of the logic board. The expansion 
board also has two standard SIMM 
sockets. Possible memory capacities 
are 1MB (no RAM expansion board). 



2MB (expansion board with no 
SIMMs), 2.5MB (256K SIMMs), and 
4MB (1MB SIMMs). A Mac Classic 
can’t use 4MB SIMMs. 

Apple sells the Classic with either 
1MB of RAM for those who don’t need 
System 7.0, or 2MB of RAM for those 
who do. In addition, using System 7.0 
will certainly require two disk drives, 
one of them preferably a hard drive. 

Disk Drives 

The Classic includes one internal 
floppy disk drive and has room for an 
internal hard drive. The floppy drive 
is a SuperDrive like the one installed 
in all present-day Macintoshes except 
the Plus. It stores 1.4MB on high- 
density disks, 800K on standard-den- 
sity double-sided disks, 
or400K on single-sided 
disks. This drive also 
reads, writes, and for- 
mats MS-DOS and OS/ 
2 disks from PC com- 
patibles, and ProDOS 
disks from Apple IIs. 
You can’t install a sec- 
ond internal floppy disk 
drive in a Mac Classic, 
as you can in an SE. 

The internal hard 
drive mounts above the 
floppy drive. The Mac 
Classic is designed to 
use one of the rela- 
tively new one-third- 
height, 3'/^-inch hard 
drives. These are not 
presently available in as 
many capacities, or in 
as high a capacity, as 
the standard-height 3*^- 
inch drives used in an 
SE. More variety is sure 
to become available. 

It will be harder, 
though not impossible, 
to mount an internal 
hard drive vertically in 
the right-rear quadrant 
of the Classic case, as 
you could do in a Plus 
or SE using non-Apple 
products. The Classic’s 
RAM expansion board 
sticks up into that area. 



Miscellany 

The Macintosh Classic has a few other 
new features in addition to its ap- 
pearance, compact hard drive, and 
circuit board design. It comes with a 
new type of ADB keyboard that looks 
like the standard Mac ADB keyboard 
most people use with an SE. The new 
keyboard has a slightly different key 
layout, and when you type the keys 
feel stiffer than on previous Mac ADB 
keyboards. The new keyboard has a 
two-position tilt adjustment, and you 
can plug the included ADB mouse 
into either the right or left side. 
Macworld editors who tried the new 
keyboard liked it better than the Mac 
Plus keyboard and felt neutral alxiut 
it compared to other Macintosh ADB 
keyboards. 

You control brightness of the dis- 
play screen with the Control Panel, 
not with a knob under the screen. The 
audio jack outputs two-channel mon- 
aural sound at levels compatible with 
most headphones. (On a Macintosh 
Plus or SE, one channel is dead, and 
the other is too loud for most head- 
phones.) A fairly quiet, constant- 
speed fan sucks air through a vent in 
the bottom of the Classic. There are 
no vents on top, so you can stack 
papers there without worrying about 
overheating the Classic. 

Value 

The features and capabilities of the 
Mac Classic are far less interesting 
than its price. The cheapest retail 
configuration — 1MB of R-VM, the new 
ADB keyboard, and a 1.4MB Super- 
Drive — lists for $999. Competition 
among dealers could drive the price 
even lower. Although the Mar Plus 
has been advenised for less than $900 
in recent months, the basic Mac 
Classic is a better deal because it’s 
faster and it includes a more flexible 
floppy drive, an ADB port, and space 
for an internal hard drive. 

A second Mac Classic configura- 
tion has all the features of the basic 
configuration plus 2MB of RAM and 
an internal 40MB hard drive. The list 
price is S 1499, and the price could go 
low’er with dealer discounting. That's 
certainly a good value compared to 




Classic Logic The Macintosh Classic's logic board is smaller and 
has fewer parts than the Macintosh Plus and SE. The reduction in size 
and parts count keeps costs down and performance up. 




Behind a Classic The back panel of the Mac Classic includes (from 
left to right) a single ADB connector for keyboard and mouse; a floppy 
disk drive port; a SCSI port for hard drives, scanners, some printers, 
and so on; a serial port designated for modem use; a serial port for a 
printer or an AppleTalk network; and an audio output jack. There is no 
SE-style removable panel for connecting to internal plug-in boards be- 
cause the Classic has no internal expansion slot. 



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RANKIIGIHEMACINIOSH CLASSIC 



All times are in seconds 



MW 



Zoom Image 

To test the processor and video 
response, we timed how long it 
took to zoom in on a MacDraw 
image. 




Spreadsheet Recalc 

To test mathematical capabilities 
of the SE and the Classic, we 
recalculated a computation- 
intensive spreadsheet that 
contained over 15,000 cells. 




Convert File 

For a processor workout, we 
converted a text file of 
approximately 250K to 
WriteNow format. 




Compile Program 

To test the processor over a 
longer period of time, we 
compiled a TML Pascal 
program. 

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LI 




In all of Macworld Lab's speed tests, the Macintosh SE and the Macintosh Classic came out nearly even. Apple hasn't traded off any 
performance in making this low-cost 68000-based Macintosh. 



an equivalently configured Mac SE, 
which has been selling recently for 
around $2300. The SE’s expansion 
slot, its only advantage over the Clas- 
sic, is not worth $800. 

These low prices make the Mac 
Classic very' competitive with low- 
end PC-compatible computers. You1l 
pay less for a Mac Classic than for a 
roughly equivalent PC compatible. (A 
typical low-end PC has a 12MHz Intel 
80286 microprocessor, 1MB of RAM, 
a 1.4MB floppy disk drive, two serial 
ports, one parallel port, and a key- 
board.) To make it as close as pos- 
sible to a Mac, you must add a mouse, 
a VGA monitor, Windows 3.0 software, 
and possibly a 40MB hard drive. The 
low-end PC system works faster than 
a Mac Classic and has a larger display 
area. On the other hand, the Classic 
includes a SCSI port for chaining 
multiple external devices, AppleTalk 
networking, sound output (beyond a 
simple beep), and a better graphical 
interface. 

With a machine as stripped-down 
as the Mac Classic, the question of 
expandability is inevitable. You can 
expand the Classic’s RAM, though 
only to 4iMB, and you can install an 
internal hard drive. In addition, you 



can attach up to seven external de- 
vices to the SCSI port (hard drives, a 
scanner, a tape drive, a high-resolu- 
tion printer, and so on). The lack of 
an expansion slot won’t matter to 
most people. According to an Apple 
survey, the slots in over 90 percent 
of SEs are empty. Besides, you’ll be 
able to upgrade a Classic as people 
now upgrade a Plus, by clipping a cir- 
cuit board onto the 68000 micropro- 
cessor. Two companies — Dove and 
Total Systems — that make accelera- 
tors for the Plus are already revising 
them to work on the Classic. 

Performance is the Classic’s 
weakest characteristic. Although it’s 
faster than a Plus, it is mediocre by 
today’s standards (see “Ranking the 
Macintosh Classic’’). At a time when 
low-cost PC compatibles are getting 
faster, Apple has given us classic per- 
formance from 1987. The Classic 
would be better prepared for the fu- 
ture if it had a faster microprocessor, 
like the l6MHz 68000 in the Mac 
Portable. Extra power could come in 
very handy when System 7.0 arrives 
and spawns increasingly complex ap- 
plication programs. 

With the Classic, Apple has rede- 
fined the minimal Macintosh upward 



MACWORLD •DECEMBER 1990 



from the level of a Mac Plus nearly to 
the level of a Mac SE. That’s pretty 
basic compared to the rest of the 
Macintosh family, but it is enough 
for word processing, spreadsheets, 
flat-file databases, black-and-white 
graphics, and even low-level desktop 
publishing. The Classic is a much 
better value than the Plus or the SE 
and should quickly replace them on 
dealers’ shelves. (Apple will continue 
to sell the older models as long as 
demand warrants.) It’S priced com- 
petitively with PC-compatible com- 
puters having similar capabilities, so 
it should help Apple increase its 
market share at the low end. The 
Classic is not enough Macintosh for a 
lot of people, but it is a very good 
value for people with basic needs and 
a tight budget. □ 

See Where to Buy, under Mac CPUs and 
Peripherals, for contact information. 



Contributing editor Lon Poole hasn V 
been able to settle down with one 
Macintosh model since he began writing 
about the Mac in 1983. He has a 
Mac Hex with two video boards and an 
old Mac Plus, but not for long. 

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What's been missing from the Macintosh line? The reasonably priced Macin- 
tosh LC with 16-bit color and Apple II emulation abilities. 



On a bright, hoi morning in August, a 

vanload of Macworld editors trekked 50 

miles down the coast from San Francisco to 

Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. Our 

sources at Apple had hinted that we would 

see three new Macintoshes. 

One would be a low-cost replacement for 
the Plus and SE. The second, a high- 
performance, one-slot Mac ll; and the real 
kicker, a low-c(3St color machine for schools, 
homes, and small businesses. When we 
walked into the meeting room, we could see 
that our sources hadn’t led us astray — three 
lumps sat concealed on a table, covered with 
bedsheets. 

We didn’t have to wait long before the 
covers were whisked off. The Mac on the 
left looked like a Macintosh SE but sleeker. 
The one on the right looked like a Macin- 
tosh Ilex on a diet. But whoa, check out the 
machine in the middle. This one, the 
Macintosh LC, sports a chassis so slender it 
could easily be mistaken for a 3 V 2 -inch hard 
drive. Small feet lilt it slightly upward, 
making the floppy-disk slot accessible over 
the keyboard. A 12-inch color monitor sits 



on top of the chassis; the whole bundle 
forms a smooth cube. As new as it looks, 
this newest member of the Mac family is also 
a blast from the past — later we’ll see an old 
Apple II game. Raster Blaster, running on it. 

Is this the low-cost, color Mac that us- 
ers have been waiting for? It’s small, it has 
8-bit color built in, and it’s 56 percent 
cheaper than the original Macintosh II. So 
what has Apple left out? Is this really the 
good deal it appears to be? 

The Basics 

Packed inside the sleek, 3-inch-high chassis 
of the Macintosh LC is a 68020 processor 
running at l6MHz — the same setup found 
in the original Macintosh II but later aban- 
doned for faster 68030-based processors. 
Despite the antiquity of its main engine, the 
Macintosh LC includes some of the more 
advanced features found in the Macintosh 
Ilci — built-in 8-bit graphics display hardware, 
and 512K ROM chips with 32-bit QuickDraw 
built in, for example. The Macintosh LC also 
comes with 2MB of memory on the main 
logic board, a 40MB internal hard drive, and 
a 1.44MB floppy drive. (Buyers for primaiy 
and secondary schools can get a single- or 
dual-floppy system without a hard disk.) 

Here’s something new: a small, round, 
platinum-colored microphone and a stereo 
jack for MacRecorder-quality sound inptit. 



BY CHERYL SPENCER 



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MAC 



LC 



Now when we talk to our Macs, they’ll 
actually listen. And at long last, Apple 
includes a standard keyboard in the 
box. Is the Macintosh LC holding up 
to its promise? So far, yes. 

Apple hasn’t provided much 
room for expansion, however. The 
Macintosh LC has only one slot for 
adding networking, video, or high- 
resolution-display boards. Although it 
is processor direct like the one in the 
SE/30, this slot uses a different set of 
signals. Thus the Macintosh LC is not 
compatible with any currently ship- 
ping add-in boards. Users (and devel- 
opers) now have a seventh slot stan- 
dard (including the one for the Mac 
llci cache) to reckon with. Also the 
Macintosh LC lacks the space for an 
optional 68881 or 68882 math co- 
processor. (This may mean compat- 
ibility problems with some applica- 
tions when the Macintosh LC first 
ships. In our tests of a preproduction 
unit, neither Excel nor Microsoft 
Works’ spreadsheets would run, since 
the code for both programs is writ- 
ten to expect any Mac with a 68020 
processor to also have a math co- 



processor. Microsoft should be able 
to easily rework the code, however.) 

The Macintosh LC’s small size 
means that only 3V2-inch, one-third- 
height (1-inch) drives can be placed 
inside. Only a few manufacturers cur- 
rently make drives in this size, and 
they max out at 45MB. Quantum may 
soon make these small drives in ca- 
pacities of 50MB and 100MB. Of 
course, the Macintosh LC supports 
external hard drives, which range in 
capacity from 20MB to 1 gigabytev 

For all its limitations, the Macin- 
tosh LC is Apple’s least-expensive 
color Macintosh. The chassis lists for 
$2400 and the newly designed 12-inch 
RGB display lists for $600. That’s a 
total of $3000 for a complete sys- 
tem — more than $3500 under the 
price of an original Macintosh II. 
VClien the Macintosh LC finally ships 
(Apple promises that will be some- 
time in Januaiy of 1991), street prices 
for a complete color system are ex- 
pected to go as low as $2200, and 
educational discounts should allow 
schools to buy the Macintosh LC for 
even less. 



Monitor Options 

The Macintosh LC supports three 
different monitors: a 13-inch color 
monitor, a new 12-inch color moni- 
tor, and an updated version of Apple’s 
12-inch monochrome display. The 
least-expensive choice, the 12-inch 
monochrome monitor, costs about 
$300 and, with the CPU’s built-in 
video board, displays 16 levels of gray. 
It offers a resolution of 640 by 480 
pixels, which translates to 76 dpi. 

Another $300 buys Apple's new 

12- inch color monitor, which in its 
standard configuration displays 256 
colors. Confusingly, this monitor has 
a lower resolution than the 12-inch 
monochrome — 512 by 384 pixels. 
This is a little more than the number 
of pixels in the original, 9-inch built- 
in monitors (512 by 342), only spread 
over a larger area. Apple offered a 
classic “it’s not a fault, it’s a feature’’ 
argument on this point, claiming that 
studies the company has done show 
that users prefer lower-resolution 
color monitors. Presumably, what 
Apple means is that some people find 
they can read text more easily when 
it’s blown up from the 72-dpi screen 
standard to the 12-inch color mon- 
itor’s actual resolution of 64 dpi. 

The new 12-inch color monitor is 
quite sharp. Based on a tube from 
Mitsubishi, it seems to live up to the 
quality we’ve come to expect from 
Apple’s Sony Trinitron-based 13-inch 
RGB display. Brightness and contrast 
controls are located on the right side 
of the monitor, within easy reach. In 
the back of the monitor are controls 
for image height and vertical and 
horizontal skew. Adjusting these 
controls requires using a special plas- 
tic-coated alignment tool, but at least 
a technician can access them without 
removing the monitor casing. 

The other monitor option is the 
AppleColor High-Resolution RGB 
display. This 13-inch display has the 
same number of pixels as the 12-inch 
monochrome, 640 by 480. One dis- 
advantage to this monitor is that the 

13- inch display monitor doesn’t fit as 
perfectly on top of the Macintosh LC 
chassis as do the 12-inch-display 
monitors. In addition, the Macintosh 




The oddly shaped logic board is 7 inches long by 9 inches wide— the cutout is V/z by V/i inches. Except for 
the ROM chips, all of the logic board's components are soldered on, even the standard 2MB of memory 
(memory chips are highly reliable so this shouldn't be a problem). The board contains 26 chips. 



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INSIDE Ifl[ MACINTOSH LC 

Adding a Board 

A board such as Apple's lie board connects to a new-style 
processor-direct slot on the Macintosh LC's logic board. An 
add-in board runs parallel to the logic board. 



The Macintosh LC was designed to be manufactured quickly and inexpen- 
sively. Five basic components— the logic board, the power supply, a fan- 
and-speaker unit, a 40MB hard drive, and a SuperDrive floppy drive — can be 
snapped into the plastic case by robots. The Macintosh LC uses only four 
cables to connect components. These cables can also be inserted by robots. 



Logic board 



Power supply 



Apple lie board 



Fan-and>speaker assembly 



SuperDrive floppy disk drive 



40MB hard drive 



LC’s built-in video circuitr>s with its 
256K of video RAM (VRAM), supports 
only 16 colors when used with the 13- 
inch color monitor. And the 13-inch 
RGB monitor costs $400 more than 
the 12-inch color monitor. 

Apple will sell a board with 512K 
of VRAM for about $200 chat can up- 
grade any of the three monitors. With 
the VRAM board, the monochrome 
monitor can display 256 gray shades, 
and the 13-inch RGB monitor can 



display 256 colors or grays. The 12- 
inch color monitor with the video 
upgrade will display 32,000 colors. 
While that’s not as many as the 16 
million that a 24-bit adapter can dis- 
play, it is realistic enough for most 
uses. 

Memory and Sound 

Apple’s stated goal for future prod- 
ucts is to establish a base level of per- 
formance that software and hardware 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



developers can expect when creating 
new products. Eventually all Macs will 
have at least 2MB cDf memory', a hard 
drive, and sound input and output 
capabilities. This exactly describes the 
Macintosh LC. 

The Macintosh LC ships standard 
with 2MB of 100-nanosecond memory' 
soldered onto the main logic board. 
The board includes two additional 
slots for SIM.M chips. Each of these 
slots must be filled in order for the 



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Macintosh LC to recognize the mem- 
ory. Adding two 1MB SIMMs gives the 
LC a total of 4MB of memor\'; adding 
two 4MB SIMMs gives it a total of 
10MB of memory. Apple claims that 
third-party vendors will come out with 
a special SIMM that will permit a 
fourth memory option of 6MB total. 

Although Apple has always in- 
cluded a spc*aker in its Macs, with the 
Macintosh LC and Ilsi it is supporting 
sound input for the first time ever. 
But unlike the high-performance 
Macintosh llsi, the Macintosh LC uses 
only 8-bit sound. This MacRecorder 
level of quality is intended primarily 
for applications using voice, such as 
voice-annotated E-mail; it is not go- 
ing to make the grade with u.sers who 
need 1 6-bit, CD-quality sound. 

'fhe Macintosh LC also lacks the 
Apple sound chip found on the 
Macintosh SE and Macintosh II fam- 
ily. As a result, the sound input and 

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output on the Macintosh LC is mono- 
phonic only; the Macintosh Ilsi has 
more realistic stereo sound. A new 
DFAC chip provides amplification, 
analog-to-digital conversion, and fil- 
tering. Apple claims that the filter al- 
lows the Macintosh LC to maintain the 
same sound fidelity as the Macintosh 
II even without the Apple sound chip. 
For voice recording, it doesn’t matter 
that the Macintosh LC’s fidelity is not 
as good as that of a Macintosh II or 
that s(3und is mono only. It’s hard to 
imagine anyone trying to produce 
professional-level sound on the 
Macintosh LC with its slow processor 
and limited video slots. 

On the positive side, a headfDhonc 
jack now allows a mono signal to play 
in both ears, and an adapter allows 
stereo input to be heard as mono. 
And with these new Macs, a CD player 
can be hooked to the sound-in port 
and the CD sound can be heard with 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



headphones via the sound-out poa or 
through a speaker — while still allow- 
ing the Mac’s various beeps to be 
heard. (For more on sound capabili- 
ties in both the Macintosh LC and 
the Macintosh Ilsi, see the sidebar 
[“Breaking the Sound Barrier’’) in 
“Mac Ilsi,” in this issue.) 

Running Apple lie Programs 

One of the most interesting things 
about the Macintosh LC, though — and 
one of the main reasons that Apple is 
targeting it heavily towai’d schools and 
homes — is that it can run Apple II and 
He software (but not Apple IIGS soft- 
ware). By March of 1991, Apple will 
ship a special Apple He emulator 
board that plugs in to the direct slot; 
it will cost about $250. (Although the 
name is not yet formalized, Apple in- 
sists that the board will not be called 
an emulator, and, in fact, requests that 
we refer to it only as the Apple He 





INSIDE THE APPLE lie BOARD 



o get the Apple Me board to 
work, the Mac's hard disk must 
be partitioned into two vol- 
umes— one to hold the ProDOS oper- 
ating system, the other to hold the 
Mac Operating System. The Macintosh 
LC's SuperDrive can read and write 
both Mac floppies and 3V2-inch Apple 
lie floppies. To read 5V4-inch Apple He 
floppies, however, an external 5’A-inch 
disk drive must be attached to a port 
on the Apple He board. Connecting a 
y-cable enables the same port to also 
run a joystick. Apple claims that by the 
time the Macintosh LC ships, click- 
ing on Apple-supplied software will 
start ProDOS. 

Apple has taken great pains to get 
this sort of tight integration between 
the Macintosh LC and the Apple He 
board. Apple had thought that it might 
be able to emulate an Apple He via 
software. But the performance lagged. 
A complete hardware solution — basi- 
cally building a He into the LC — would 
have boosted the machine's price out 
of range of most home or education 
buyers and it would not have been 
flexible enough to support future fea- 
tures such as cut-and-paste between 
Mac and Apple Me programs. So 
Apple compromised, coming up with 
an ingenious hardware-and-software 
solution that allows full performance 
at a reasonable cost. 

The Apple He board contains both 
a 65C02 processor, which runs Apple 
He programs, and 256K of memory. 
Half of the memory is used as stan- 
dard Apple He memory (upping an 
Apple He program's allotted memory 
in the Mac's Get Info box enables the 
application to use the Macintosh LC's 
main memory as expanded Apple He 
memory). The other 128K contains an 
image of the Apple He ROM— the ROM 
is, in fact, one of the few chips miss- 
ing on the Apple He card. 

Thanks to a clever design, the 
Apple He card not only runs Apple II 



programs and peripherals, but it also 
allows programs to use the Mac's 
peripherals. For instance, any Apple 
II program can use the Mac's mouse 
as if it were an Apple He mouse. When 
an Apple He program starts to look 
for a mouse, or for any hardware that 
might normally be attached to (or in) 
an Apple He, special circuitry in the 
He board stalls the 65C02 processor 
and lets the software in the Macintosh 
LC know that the He program is trying 
to access the He hardware. The soft- 
ware in the Macintosh then reads or 
writes the same data that the He would 
have seen if the hardware had been 
present. With this scheme, the He 
board should work with almost all 
Apple He software, even programs 
that access He hardware directly. 

Some lie firmware calls are 
modified to communicate directly with 
the Mac software. These calls from the 
He program are mapped into a spe- 
cial device handler on the LC. The 
handler translates the calls and goes 
to a predesignated place to get the 
information the program needs. For 
instance, the handler might go to the 
LC's mouse port, grab information, 
and send It back to the program; from 
the program's point of view, the data 
appears as If it came from a lie mouse. 

A similar design lets the Macin- 
tosh LC run all of the Apple He's dif- 
ferent video modes. Each display 
mode acts differently — text mode 
generating only text, low-resolution 
mode supporting more colors than 
single hi-res, and double hi-res tak- 
ing two screen buffers of single hi- 
res mode and interleaving them byte 
by byte to get the best resolution (for 
the Apple He, that's 560 by 192). And 
each of those modes acts differently 
from a Macintosh LC display. 

The Apple lie card, however, 
doesn't generate any video. Instead, 
it provides a value in a status register 
whenever the He alters the data in its 



video buffer. The Macintosh LC soft- 
ware, upon noticing this alert, deter- 
mines the address and data stored in 
the He display buffer and draws the 
equivalent image on the Macintosh 
LC's screen. The Macintosh software 
can also look directly into the video 
buffers on the Apple He card and see 
what Information is stored there. The 
software determines what dot pattern 
the information represents, and then 
goes to the Macintosh screen and 
paints an equivalent image. 

To illustrate just how much engi- 
neering cleverness went into making 
this scheme work, take a look at what 
happens during a typical scroll. The 
Apple He board tries to access an 
Apple He screen — which is not there. 
Now this might not be such a big deal 
except that the Apple He uses 
hardware character generation, that is, 
for every character that is written on 
the screen, the Apple He sends an 
ASCII code to a text screen buffer. The 
Apple He hardware generates a 
bitmapped version of the character 
and sends it to the screen. The Mac, 
on the other hand, draws each Apple 
II text character as a bitmap that is 3.5 
bytes wide and 16 bytes high. Thus 
the Mac must draw about 56 bytes of 
information for each 1-byte text 
charater that the Apple He stores. Yet 
the Apple He programs we saw 
running on the LC worked smoothly. 

A large part of the reason Apple 
can supply such good Apple II and He 
emulation on the Macintosh LC is that 
Apple HGS engineers helped. For in- 
stance, there are only a few ways to 
enable copy protection on Apple He 
372-inch floppies. Since the Apple He 
engineers knew all of those ways, they 
engineered the board to work with 
those schemes — a feat that would 
have been nearly impossible for an 
outsider to achieve in a reasonable 
amount of time. As a result, only a few 
very esoteric games refuse to run. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



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MAC 





This slender Mac measures only 3 inches high by 12.2 inches wide by 15 inches deep. The case's top pops 
off like the one on the llci. 




The Macintosh LC includes a connector for an external floppy disk drive, two serial ports, a SCSI connector, 
an AppleTalk connector, audio-in and audio-out ports, and a space for the optional Apple He board. 



option board. The company is still 
gun-shy about earlier third-party 
emulation boards that did not work.) 

When Macworld Lab tested the 
Macintosh LC in August, the Apple lie 
card was still in prototype stage, so 
we couldn’t run any speed tests on it. 
But Apple did run several Apple II and 
He programs; they all worked well, at 
the full Apple lie IMHz speed. The 
Apple He card can run at 2MHz (the 
Apple He’s speed), but the beeps 
sound wrong and some timing-de- 
pendent applications (such as games) 
may refuse to run. 

To prove that the Apple He op- 
tion board was designed for ultimate 

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compatibility, Apple ran BudgeCo's 
Raster Blaster, an old Apple 11 pinball 
game that was written in assembly 
language and would be incredibly dull 
to play if it were not running at full 
speed with all its graphics, sound, and 
animation intact. Apple seems to have 
done its homework. It may have 
scrimped on expandability features for 
the Macintosh LC, but it’s gone full- 
bore on the Apple He card. Pull out 
those old Apple II disks — Apple’s 
betting that they'll run on this board. 

Other Uses for the Direct Slot 

Not ever>’one wall want to use the 
processor-direct slot for Apple lie 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



emulation. When the Macintosh LC 
ships, Apple will offer an Ethernet 
board for users w'ho want to connect 
to a network that’s faster than 
AppleTalk (approximately $*100 for 
the board and the transceiver box). 
Third-party vendors are expected to 
announce options such as token-ring 
boards, 3270-emulation boards, in- 
ternal modems, and larger monitors. 
Apple admits that this new one-slot 
Macintosh opens the door for vendors 
to create multifunction boards that 
will, say, offer support for a 19-inch 
display and live video on the same 
board. 

What about speeding up the 
68020 processor or upgrading for 
System 7.0 virtual capability? Apple 
w'on’t provide a 68030 upgrade option 
or a math coprocessor, although the 
company has implemented the signals 
needed to make a math coprocessor 
run. Apple hints, however, that third- 
party vendors are working on accel- 
erators w'ith math coprocessor op- 
tions — and these accelerators may not 
even use the processor-direct slot. 

The only limitation on the types 
of boards that will work on the 
Macintosh LC is how much power 
they draw. The Macintosh LC’s power 
supply has 4 watts left over for add-in 
boards after supplying power to the 
rest of the system. This compares with 
15 watts per slot on the three-slot 
Macintosh Hex. VLSI technology is 
improving, however; RasterOps has 
already produced a 24-bit board with 
an accelerator (the 24s) that draws 
only 4.5 watts. 

It Stands for 'low Cost" 

For the Macintosh LCs power supply 
to be beefier, it would have to be 
physically bigger. And if the power 
supply were bigger, the Macintosh 
LC’s case would have to be bigger. If 
the case were big enough to support 
a heftier power supply, then why not 
add a few more slots? Pretty soon, us- 
ers would come full circle, back to the 
Macintosh II with its greater ex- 
pandability — and higher price. 

To make a product that fits into 
its current lineup, Apple had no al- 
ternative but to downsize compo- 







RANKING THE MACimOSIlLC 



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fit Image to Window 

We resized images in Claris 
CAD, MacDraw, and Illustrator 
to fit the Mac's window. 
{Times are averaged.} 


Preview Image 

Previewing an image exercises 
the processor the same way Fit 
Image to Window does, but we 
got very different results. We 
timed Illustrator for this test. 


Redraw Image 

Redrawing a ModelShop image 
gave us results consistent with 
the Fit Image to Window test. 


Convert File 

Converting a 25DK text file to 
WriteNow format also gave us 
results consistent with the Fit 
Image to Window test. 

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Although the Macintosh LC's processor is similar to the Macintosh H's, the Macintosh LC has only a 16-bit data path compared to the 
Macintosh ll's 32-bit data path. Thus, many operations are a bit slower on the Macintosh LC than on the Macintosh II. 



nenis and simplify the whole shebang 
into a nice, compact package — even 
though that meant crippling some of 
the features of the original Macintosh 
II. For instance, the Macintosh H’s 
68020 uses a 32-bit data path to move 
data into and out of the processor. 
The Macintosh LC, on the other hand, 
uses a l6-bit data path. Fortunately, 
this doesn’t slow the processor’s per- 
formance very much at all (see 
benchmarks). In order to process 32 
bits, Apple would have to use two 
ASIC chips; to process 16 bits, Apple 
needs to use only one ASIC chip (the 
limiting factor for an ASIC is the 
number of pins it can hold). The 
fewer the chips, the smaller the 
board; the smaller the board, the 
cheaper it is to manufacture. 

Likewise, the reason users have 
only one configuration option (two, 
counting the floppy-only system for 
schools) is so that Apple can keep 
production costs down. A Macintosh 
LC has only five main parts to as- 
semble (see “Inside the Macintosh 
LC”) and only four connectors to at- 
tach. For Apple, there’s no time-con- 
suming and costly switching between 
assembly lines configured for Macin- 
tosh LCs with varying amounts of 
memory' and hard drives with differ- 
ent capacities. So except for schools, 
buying a Macintosh LC means buying 
an Apple 40MB hard disk, like it or not. 



ril Take One 

Is the Macintosh LC a product that 
users want? Does the lack of Mac Ilci- 
class performance and expandability 
tarnish the temptation any? To both 
of these the answer is yes and no. The 
price is certainly attractive and the 
Mac LC’s sleek, small case design is 
endearing. Performance is more than 
adequate, if not startling. Weighing in 
at 8.8 pounds including the hard disk, 
the LC cries for a 2-pound flat-panel 
display. Pack the whole thing together 
and the LC becomes an 11-pound 
portable (minus, of course, a batteiy 
for cordless operation). 

The Macintosh LC will be a win- 
ner in businesses, homes, and 
schools. In business, the Macintosh 
LC belongs on the desk of the many 
people for whom a Macintosh II of- 
fers sufficient power and more than 
enough expansion slots. In the home, 
the Macintosh LC is appropriate for 
users who want a Macintosh as an e.x- 
lension to .school or work. Folks with 
children who use an Apple lie at 
school will be especially tempted. 

As for the education market, the 
Macintosh LC has tougher competi- 
tion. Universities may want more 
power and expandability than the 
Macintosh LC offers — especially if they 
are connecting to a UNIX network or 
doing multimedia work. But for K- 
through-12 schools, the Macintosh LC, 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



with its Apple He board and low-cost 
color, is a good deal. Apple claims that 
the Macintosh LC will sell to schools 
for the same price as — or even less 
than — an Apple lIGS. 

Now more than ever, it makes 
sense for Apple to phase out the 
Apple IIGS and may^be even the Apple 
lie. The Macintosh LC is designed so 
that it can be assembled completely 
by robotics once the production vol- 
ume is up enough to justify it. Cur- 
rently, only Apple’s manufacturing 
facility in Singapore has experience 
asseml^ling machines with no human 
contact — and that's on the Apple lIGS 
line. Couple that with the Macintosh 
LC’s ex|)ected price equivalency to the 
Apple lIGS for schools, and the no- 
holds-barrecl approach Apple took to 
enabling complete Apple Il-compat- 
ibility, and it doesn’t make much 
sense for consumers to choose an 
Apple IIGS. 

Overall, the .Macintosh LC is a 
winner. It’s a solid machine with good 
performance and capabilities at an 
aggressive price. After several disap- 
pointing Macintosh introductions 
(most notably, the Portable and the 
.Macintosh Ilci), Apple has shown that 
it can still be innovative and com- 
petitive. □ 

See Where to Buy under Mac CPUs anti 
Peripherals. 



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MAC 




With built-in video and the ability to input sound, the one-slot Macintosh 

llsi offers the performance of a Ilex — and it costs $2000 
less. Why, then, will some of us miss the Macintosh Ilex? 



High-end features for a midrange price — 
that was the design philosophy behind the 
Macintosh llsi. The newest, smallest mem- 
ber of the Mac II family is faster than the 
Mac Ilex, which for all practical purposes, it 
replaces. It’s elegantly engineered, with 
fewer components than a Ilex and a snap- 
together design that should make repairs 
easy and less expensive. 

More important, the Macintosh llsi lowers 
the cost of the Mac II line’s most desirable 
attributes — a 68030 processor, support for 
32-bit color and NuBus expansion boards, 
and stereo sound output. The llsi doesn’t 
even require that you buy a separate video 
board, thanks to built-in video circuitry 
similar to that of the costlier and faster Mac 



Ilci. And the llsi joins the new Macintosh 
LC in providing a microphone and built-in 
sound-recording circuitry (see “Breaking the 
Sound Barrier’’). 

What does it cost? With 2MB of memory 
and a 40MB hard disk, approximately $3800. 
Throw in a standaal keyboard and a 13-inch 
color monitor for a total of roughly $4900. 
That’s about what a 2MB, hard disk- 
equipped Macintosh SE/30 cost prior to 
Apple’s latest price cuts, and it’s about 35 
percent less than a similarly configured 
Macintosh Ilex. Your only other configura- 
tion choice is a Macintosh llsi with 5MB of 
memory and an 80MB hard disk — that will 
cost about $800 more. 

To learn where Apple cut corners in 
order to deliver a less expensive Mac II, start 
by counting expansion slots. The Macintosh 
Hex and Ilci each provide three slots (not 
counting the Macintosh Ilci’s cache board 
slot), but the Macintosh llsi has just one. 
And for reasons I’ll describe later, you need 
to spend an extra $249 for an adapter board 
before you can install any currently available 
lx)ard in that slot. 



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Behind the Macintosh llsi The back of the llsi's case includes modem and printer ports, an external floppy 
drive connector, a SCSI connector, a stereo sound output jack, an audio input jack, and one Apple Desktop 
Bus (ADB| connector. 



But for many people, that won’t 
matter. After all, many Mac IIs con- 
tain only one expansion board — a 
video board. Given that the llsi al- 
ready contains video circuitry, many 
people may not even need its single 
slot. But for anyone who wants to 
combine, say, 24-bit color and CD- 
quality digital sound, the llsi is the 
wrong machine. Like a two-seater 
sports car, the Mac llsi has plenty 
of horsepower, but little room for 
passengers. 

An Appealing Profile 

With its stylish, low-profile case, the 
llsi weighs just 10 pounds and mea- 
sures 4 inches high, 12.4 inches wide, 
and 14.9 inches deep. The machine 
fits nicely under a monitor and can 
support a 19-inch monitor such as 
Apple’s Two-Page Monochrome 
Monitor. Alas, the machine cannot 
be set on its side the way a Ilex or 
llci can. 

Like the Macintosh Ilex and lid, 
the Macintosh llsi accommodates one 
internal SuperDrive floppy drive and 
one hard drive. The hard drive, how- 
ever, must be a squat, one-third- 
height unit; the Mac Ilsi’s case isn’t 
tall enough for the higher-capacity 
half-height units that other Mac IIs 
can accommodate. 

Unfortunately, the llsi — unlike 
most Macs with an internal hard 
drive — lacks a front-panel activity light 
that would let you know when the 
disk is being accessed. An activity light 
isn’t required equipment, but it does 
help you know what the machine is 
up to. This omission, shared by the 
Mac Classic and LC, is another cost- 
cutting measure: the light itself isn’t 
expensive, but the labor involved in 
routing the wire that connects it to 
the hard drive would have added to 
the cost of manufacturing. Apple 
should provide software for an on- 
screen disk-activity indicator — like the 
DiskLight software in Norton Utilities 
for the Macintosh. 

The back of the Ilsi’s case sports 
the standard ports and connectors 
(see “Behind the Macintosh llsi’’). But 
like the Classic and LC, the llsi offers 
just one ADB connector instead of the 



two that have been standard on all 
Macs beginning with the SE. That may 
disappoint fans of alternative input 
devices — it means you can attach just 
one additional input device beyond 
the keyboard and mouse. (Although 
the ADB supports up to 16 devices, 
Apple recommends against connect- 
ing more than 3 to one ADB con- 
nector because of signal degradation 
in the cabling.) 

Like other Mac IIs, the llsi starts 
up to the chord of a steel guitar when 
you press its keyboard’s power-on 
key. Supplying the juice is a 47-watt 
power supply — a lightweight com- 
pared to the 230-watt supplies used 
in the IIx and Ilfx and the 90-watt 
supplies in the Hex and Ilci. But re- 
member, the llsi has fewer internal 
components, and it supplies power 
for just one expansion board, not six 
or three. 

Nonetheless, Apple has identified 
a few high-end, third-party video 
boards that draw more power than a 
single NuBus board should. For such 
a board, Apple recommends that the 
developer indicate in the manual that 
the board requires the power of two 
NuBus slots. The moral: Before buy- 
ing a high-end video board for a llsi, 
verify that the llsi can accommodate 
its power requirements. 

The llsi is cooled by a small, 
single-speed fan that Apple claims is 



among the quietest it has offered. A 
locking power switch like that of the 
Ilex and Ilci lets the llsi turn itself 
back on after a power failure. Unlike 
the Macintosh LC, the llsi provides a 
power connector that will also switch 
on a monitor. 

The Macintosh Ilsi’s speaker faces 
the bottom of the case, as it does in 
the Mac LC. That location doesn’t help 
the Ilsi’s sound quality, but it Is ad- 
equate for voice — which is all a 2 ‘/ 2 - 
inch speaker is good for anyway. 

In the Chips 

The Ilsi’s surprisingly small logic 
board showcases Apple’s prowess at 
creating custom integrated circuit 
chips that do the work of numerous 
off-the-shelf components (see "The 
Macintosh llsi Logic Board’’). The 
Ilsi’s low chip count is more than an 
engineering achievement — it means 
the machine costs less to build and 
contains fewer components to break. 

Driving the Mac llsi is a Motorola 
68030 processor running at 20MHz — 
a pace almost midway between the 
Ilex’s l6MHz clock rate and the lid’s 
25MHz. Apple representatives say that 
cost was the main reason Apple didn’t 
use a 25MHz 68030 in the llsi, but It’s 
clear that the 20MHz clock rate also 
helps the machine fit more neatly into 
the Mac product line. The 68030’s 
burst mode is implemented to allow 



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BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER 



njl acs have been capable of play- 
IITII ing digitally recorded sound 
liil since the days of the Macintosh 
51 2K, but they've lacked the audio 
circuitry and analog-to-digital con- 
verter required for recording sound. 
Users wanting to add sounds to Hy- 
perCard stacks, presentations, or the 
System file have had to resort to third- 
party products, usually Farallon 
Computing's MacRecorder. 

The Macintosh LC and llsi change 
ail that by providing built-in re- 
cording circuitry and a small 
microphone. Their recording 
features aren't going to supplant 
professionally oriented digital 
audio products like Digidesign's 
Sound Tools and Audiomedia, 
but they do give average users 
an easy way to add the dimen- 
sion of sound to the Mac. And 
they spotlight Apple's desire to 
make sound more important. 

Both the LC and the llsi 
provide a three-conductor audio 
input jack that supplies power to 
the microphone, a sensitive 
electric condenser mike not 
much bigger than a large but- 
ton. An adapter cable, available 
separately, lets you connect a stereo 
and other audio sources, and merges 
the left and right audio channels into 
a single channel. 

Although the input circuitry sup- 
ports monophonic recording only. 



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Now Recording A new version of the Con- 
trol Panel Device called Sound in System 6.0.6 
lets you record beep sounds. Clicking on Add 
brings up a recording dialog box that lets you 
choose the recording settings and volume. 
Apple wants all programs that can record 
sound to use this dialog box. 



Apple says stereo recording is pos- 
sible by combining the built-in mike 
with MacRecorder. Farallon is tweak- 
ing its MacRecorder software to be 
compatible with the new machines; a 
prerelease version of the enhanced 
MacRecorder SoundEdit application 
was running on a llsi at Apple's press 
briefing. 

The new machines' sound cir- 
cuitry supports sampling rates of 
11kHz and 22kHz. The 22kHz rate 



provides the best sound quality, but 
sounds recorded at this rate use more 
memory and disk space. Farallon's 
MacRecorder, by contrast, supports 
sampling rates of 5kHz and 7kHz in 
addition to the 11kHz and 22kHz rates. 
Digidesign's products can sample at 
up to 44kHz — the rate used by com- 
pact disc players. 

Both machines use System 
6.0.6's enhanced Sound Manager to 
support Apple's Macintosh Audio 
Compression and Expansion (MACE) 
scheme, which allows sound to be 
compressed by 3:1 or 6:1 ratios. 
Compressed sounds require less 
memory and disk space, but they lack 
the fidelity of uncompressed ones. 
Still, the compression modes are 



useful for applications such as voice 
mail, where fidelity isn't critical. Sys- 
tem 6.0.6 also includes a new version 
of the Control Panel device Sound, 
which lets you record beep sounds, 
eliminating the tedium of using a 
separate utility to paste sound re- 
sources into the System file. 

Apple has also added support for 
sound resources to the Clipboard, so 
you can cut and paste sounds be- 
tween applications that support them. 
Apple plans to add the ability to 
cut and paste sounds from or to 
the Scrapbook. Also planned is 
a sound palette for HyperCard 
that will allow direct recording, 
playback, and simple sound 
editing. 

At the briefing, Apple touted 
the business benefits of sound, 
showing a voice-mail-enhanced 
version of Microsoft Mail and a 
prerelease version of Ashton- 
Tate's FullWrite that supports 
recorded document annotations. 
Sound is potentially useful for 
E-mail, but its value for docu- 
ment annotation is questionable. 
For one thing, many people feel 
self-conscious about speaking 
into a microphone. For another, it re- 
quires more time to transmit sounds 
over a network than it does text, and 
sounds devour disk space and 
memory. Then there are all the Macs 
out there without sound-recording 
features. Companies that want to 
standardize on sound-based docu- 
ment annotation will need to buy a 
lot of MacRecorders. And finally, 
opening and playing back recorded 
annotations requires more effort than 
simply reading text. Sound recording 
is a definite strength of the new Macs, 
but Apple should concentrate on its 
value to education and presentation 
applications— and, let's face it, on 
the fun of hearing your own custom- 
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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



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MAC 






NuBus board 



ASSEMBLING THE 



supply 



Logic board 

SuperDrive floppy disk drive 



The Macintosh ilsi's simple 
snap-together design includes 
only six major internal components— 
logic board, power supply, fan, speaker, 
SuperDrive floppy disk drive, and 40MB one- 
third-height hard drive. To add in a board, you 
need one of two special adapters (see below). 



Processor-Direct Board 



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llriva 



NuBus Board 



To add a processor-direct board such as the SE/30 uses, you need the 
030 Direct Slot Adapter Card. This $249 board includes a 68882 math 
coprocessor and has a slot into which you plug an 030 expansion board. 
The adapter is positioned at a right angle to the logic board; the 030 board 
runs parallel to the logic board. A plastic bracket helps support an 030 
expansion board. 



To add a NuBus board such as the Macintosh II family uses, you need 
a NuBus Slot Adapter Card. This $249 board includes a 68882 math co- 
processor plus Apple's custom set of NuBus transceiver chips. You plug a 
NuBus board into the adapter's standard 96-pin NuBus connector. The 
NuBus board runs parallel to the logic board. A plastic bracket inside the 
Ilsi's case helps support the NuBus board. 



Adaptor board 



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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 




faster reads from the processor’s on- 
chip cache. This is similar to the way 
in which the 68030 works in a Macin- 
tosh Ilci that doesn’t contain a cache 
board. 

Unlike other Mac IIs and the SE/ 
30, however, the Macintosh Ilsi does 
not contain a 68882 numeric co- 
processor, which speeds up math- 
ematical calculations. You can add 
one for $249 by buying an adapter 
board that plugs into the Mac Ilsi’s 
slot. For a math chip, $249 is not 
bad — it is considerably less than such 
chips cost for an IBM PC. And as you 
will see shortly, purchasing the 
adapter board is also the first step in 
adding an expansion board to the 
Macintosh Ilsi. 

Although the Ilsi does not ben- 
efit from any of the performance- 
boosting coprocessing chips devel- 
oped for the flagship Mac Ilfx, the Ilsi 
still has some new members in its cast 
of silicon characters. One of its new 
chips manages the ADB and contains 
the battery-powered real-time clock 
and parameter memory', while an- 
other governs the SCSI bus and the 
two serial ports. Apple reports that, 
despite the new serial chip, MIDI se- 
quencers and other programs that 
expect to see and directly access the 
standard Serial Controller Chip 
should run without modification. 

The Price of Free Video 

The most noteworthy custom chips 
in the Ilsi are those that provide 8-bit 
video support. Like the Ilci, the only 
other Mac II with built-in video cir- 
cuitry, the Ilsi employs Apple’s RAM- 
Based Video (RBV) and Memory' De- 
coder Unit (MDU) chips to cleverly 
use part of the computer’s main 
memory' to hold the bits that repre- 
sent the screen image. This scheme 
eliminates the need for a separate 
video board. (You will need a sepa- 
rate board for 24-bit color.) 

When you start up the Ilsi, its 
video circuitiy senses and adapts it- 
self to the monitor you’ve attached. 
The circuitry supports all Apple 
monitors, displaying up to 256 colors 
or gray shades on the 13-inch color 
and 12-inch monochrome monitors, 



and up to 16 shades of gray on the 
Apple Portrait Display. The built-in 
video circuitry does not support 
Apple’s Two-Page Monochrome 
Monitor, although you can use that 
monitor by buying a separate NuBus 
display adapter. 

But there’s a price to pay for free 
video. In its 16- and 256-color modes, 
the Ilsi’s on-board video runs slower 
than does a NuBus video board, 
which provides its own video 
memory'. That’s because the Ilsi’s 
68030 often has to wait to access 
memory because the MDU chip is 
accessing the same bank of memory 
in the course of creating screen im- 
ages. In some of Macworld I^ab’s tests, 
the Ilsi using built-in video was about 
half as fast in 256-color mode as a Ilsi 
using a NuBus video board (see 
“Display Adapters Compared”). 

And because the video circuitry^ 
uses part of the Macintosh Ilsi’s main 
memory' to hold the screen image, 
less memoiy is available to run pro- 
gmms — up to 320K less in the 256- 
color mode. Given that 2MB of 



memory' is the bare minimum re- 
quired for Apple’s forthcoming Sys- 
tem 7.0 (and for getting any real use 
out of MultiFinder today), people who 
plan to use the Macintosh Ilsi’s 256- 
color mode extensively may want to 
consider upgrading to 5MB right off 
the bat. 

Memory Details 

Fortunately, the Ilsi uses standard 
SIMMs, so expanding its memory 
won’t be as expensive a proposition 
as it is with the Mac Ilbc. The machine 
requires 100 nanosecond (ns) RAM 
chips, but Apple is providing 80ns 
ones. Thus, users who have the Ilsi 
and Ilci can swap SIMMs between 
the two. 

The layout of the Ilsi’s memory' 
chips is unique among Macs. Memory' 
Bank A — the 1MB bank also used for 
video memory — is soldered to the 
logic board. Joining it are four SIMM 
slots, which form Bank B. The 2MB 
version of the Ilsi contains 256K 
SIMMs in Bank B. The 5MB configu- 
ration contains 1MB SIMMs. With 




The Macintosh Ilsi Logic Board The Macintosh llsi's logic board has a simple and clean design. All the 
components are soldered on — including the 2MB of standard memory — making the board less expensive to 
manufacture. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



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MAC 





llsi Expansion Adapters To add a board to the Macintosh llsi, you'll need one of two adapters. One allows 
the llsi to use a NuBus board (right); the other allows the llsi to use an 030 direct slot board. 



4MB SIMMs, the logic board holds up 
to 17MB. 

The SIMM sockets are a big im- 
provement over those used in earlier 
Macs. Metal clips, not those stubborn, 
eminently breakable plastic ones, hold 
the SIMMs in place. The new clips 
should better withstand the process 
of installing and removing SIMMs and 
should break fewer fingernails in the 
process. 

As for ROM, there’s 512K worth 
in the llsi, and the ROM chips are 
very similar to those in a Ilci. The llsi 
ROM chips contain 32-bit Quick- 
Draw; they’re 32-bit clean, and thus 
ready for System 7.0 (aren’t we all?). 
The ROM chips will be soldered to 
the main board, but the board con- 
tains a SIMM slot designed to hold 
any future ROM upgrades. Apple says 
the ROM provided in the very 
first units manufactured may be 
SIMM-mounted. 

The Expansion Zone 

As Rod Serling would say, you’re 
about to enter another dimension. 
The Ilsi’s expansion scheme is unlike 
anything you’ve seen in the Mac world 
to date. At first glance, it seems awk- 
ward, even kludgey. But on closer 
examination, it’s versatile and down- 
right clever, able to accept either a 
NuBus board or a board designed for 
the SE/30’s 030 direct slot. 



194 



Electrically, the slot on the Ilsi’s 
logic board is identical to the SE/30’s 
030 direct slot, and Apple says any SE^ 
30 board that adheres to Apple’s de- 
velopment guidelines will work. 
However, the Ilsi’s case is too short 
to vertically accommodate a board 
designed for the SE/30, where a board 
lies horizontally, parallel to the logic 
board. Enter the aforementioned $249 
adapter board. Called the 030 Direct 
Slot Adapter Card, it contains its own 
slot into which you plug an 030 ex- 
pansion board (see “llsi Expansion 
Adapters’’). 

Because the installed adapter 
board is positioned at a right angle 
to the logic board, the 030 board you 
plug in to it ends up being parallel 
to the logic board, and thus fits 
within the Macintosh Ilsi’s case. The 
030 Direct Slot Adapter Card contains 
only a few pans, one being the 68882 
math chip. 

To install a NuBus expansion 
board, you buy a different adapter, 
called the NuBus Slot Adapter Card. 
This board contains a 68882 math 
coprocessor as well as Apple’s cus- 
tom-designed set of NuBus trans- 
ceiver chips, which allow the llsi to 
communicate with a NuBus board. 
And the adapter board contains the 
standard, 96-pin NuBus connector 
into which you plug a NuBus board, 
which runs from front to back within 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



the Ilsi’s case, parallel to the logic 
board. 

The Macintosh Ilsi’s ability to use 
either an 030 direct slot board or a 
NuBus board introduces an important 
question for Macintosh llsi owners: 
which expansion camp do I buy into? 
Organizations with other Macintosh 
IIs will probably want the NuBus 
adapter in the interest of standard- 
ization. Also, there’s currently a larger 
selection of NuBus boards to choose 
from. 

But the 030 direct slot has the 
potential to provide higher perfor- 
mance for data-intensive applications 
like 24-bit color and digital sound 
processing. That’s because the 030 
direct slot runs at 20MHz versus the 
NuBus’s poky^ lOMHz. It is also pos- 
sible that more multifunction expan- 
sion boards will be developed for the 
030 direct slot, now that it’s sup- 
ported by three Macintosh models 
(the SE/30, llsi, and Ilfx). In the end, 
Macintosh llsi shoppers will need to 
do some research to determine which 
type of board to buy. 

Is It Worth Buying? 

The verdict? Tlie llsi succeeds in its 
intended purpose — lowering the 
price of entry to the Macintosh II 
world. Its performance is excellent, 
and overall, it’s a very' appealing 
package. 

Why consider the llsi over the 
less-expensive LC? The llsi is faster, 
it supports NuBus boards and a math 
coprocessor (albeit for an extra $249), 
and it supports a greater range of 
Apple monitors. And thanks to its 
68030 (as apposed to the LG’s 68020), 
the llsi can run Apple’s A/UX version 
of the UNIX operating system, and 
the llsi is ready for System 7.0’s virtual 
memory feature. 

If there is a fly in the ointment, it 
is that single, though versatile, ex- 
pansion slot. If any multifunction ex- 
pansion boards become available, 
they will help circumvent the 
machine’s limited expandability, but 
on the whole, the llsi may not be a 
Mac II you can grow old with. With 
any computer purchase, assessing 
your future needs is important. With 




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lyiatheiHatica Recalculation 

To test calculation speed, we threw a highly 
copfiplex equation at Mathematica and timed 
how long it took the Macs to process the 
answer. 



Rt Imaye to Window 

To test processor speed, we resized Images 
in several graphic programs (for instance, 
FreeHand and ModelShop) to fit the Mac's 
window. (Times are averaged.) 



Clianye Font Style 

We also timed how long it took to change 
a font style in a PageMaker document, 
including the time it took to update the 
screen. 




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in most tests, the Macintosh lisi came out a bit faster than the Macintosh Ilex and a bit slower than the Macintosh llci. There were a 
couple of oddball exceptions, however, such as the font change In PageMaker, where the Macintosh Ilsi was slower than either the 
Macintosh Ilex or llci. If you pick the Macintosh ilsi over the llci, you'll get fewer slots and, overall, slightly slower performance. 



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Fit Image to Window 

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NuBus display adapter 
Ilsi display adapter 



to fit perfectly In the Mac's window. 




Select All Elements 



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same complex Claris CAD image. 




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A Macintosh llsl's built-in video circuitry uses the computer's main memory; a NuBus display adapter uses its own video memory. As a 
result, the Macintosh Ilsi using built-in video is about half the speed in 256-color mode as a Macintosh ilsi using a NuBus video board 
(Apple's Macintosh Display Card 4*8) in some tests. That's really a shame, since you only have one slot to fill in the Macintosh Ilsi. 



the Macintosh Ilsi, it is paramount. 

And that’s why I’ll miss the Ilex. 
Although it is slower and more ex- 
pensive than the Ilsi, its three slots 
provide more expandability, even if 
one is gobbled up by a video board. 
Many applications — including ones 
Apple is bent on promoting, such as 
multimedia — require more hardware 
than will fit in a Ilsi. 

But the truth is, most people 
don’t need to combine real-time 



video, high-speed networking, and 
digital sound boards. They want color, 
and they want swift performance, and 
they want all the other trappings of 
the Macintosh II family, and they may 
want to upgrade to 24-bit color 
someday. The Ilsi accommodates 
these needs superbly. If you’re in this 
group — or if you have a Macintosh 
Ilex with more vacant slots than filled 
ones — the Macintosh Ilsi may just be 
the Mac for you. □ 



Sec Where to Buy under Mac CPUs and 
Peripherals. 



Contributing Editor Jim Heid has 
been writing about the Mac 
since 1983 and has almost paid off 
his original Mac II, which usually 
contains Just one expansion board. 

His latest book, coauthored 
with Peter Norton, is Inside the Aj^ple 
Macintosh, (Brady, 1990). 



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anta 



Pile 

Mac gift ideas from the 
ultimate gift giver 



wa.s the night before Christmas, when all through the house, 
The Macintosh, modem, and even the mouse 
Were tidily tucked away, covered with care — 

Their users knew Santa Claus soon would be there. 
My Macintosh friends w^ere all snug in their beds, 
Wliile visions of Ilci’s danced in their heads. 




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fmit/i afio/o^tex to Ct/enw^it Ghtr/ie 



But I, with the keyboard secure in my lap, 

Was dialing my modem all over the map. 

A BBS here and a database there, 

Well, sure, it was Christmas Eve; I didn’t care. 

So I dialed up one with a North Pole address — 

I’d been given the number for “Claus BBS’’ — 

Wlien what to my wondering eyes should appear. 

But a digitized sleigh and eight 3-D reindeer! 

Then a spreadsheet unfurled on the screen in a trice. 

Full of names and addresses, marked “naughty” or “nice.” 
Imagine the look of surprise on my face: 

It seems I’d tapped in to Saint Nick’s database! 

Now, of course, there w'ere five billion names in the list, 
But to take a sneak peek . . . well, I couldn’t resist. 

So I did a quick search for my Macintosh friends. 

To find out what the ultimate gift-giver sends. 



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niece, on the other hand, soon will be five, 

A shoot-’em-up probably’d fry her alive. 

But Santa must know what a child is about, 

He’s giving the charming Inigo Gets Out, 

A HyperCard stack that has no words at all. 

We follow a kitten, a cute fuzzy ball, 

As he scampers and tumbles and crawls, card to card; 
It’s the perfect kid’s present in every regard. 



And what about Nathan, the neighborhood nerd? 

He already owns ever\^ program, I’ve heard. 

I did a quick search in the Santa Claus file. 

And Santa thought DisCoasters might make him smile. 
“Wliy, here’s a diskette!” you would probably think, 

But it doesn’t hold data; it just holds your drink. 
They’re colorful, cute, and protect the veneer. 

1 guess .Nathan has really been super this year, 

For Santa had slated him, too, to receive 
Some newfangled mousepads you wouldn’t believe. 
They’re neon, an deco, or marbleized mats 
To cushion the mice of the coolest of cats. 

The Dick Tracy pad ought to give Nathan a lift, 

But the Disney one, well, it’s a Mickey Mouse gift. 



For Wanda, my boss, there was fancier stuff, 

’Cause sometimes a mousepad just isn’t enough. 
LabelWriter, it’s called, and it sits on the desk. 

It’s triangular, small — you might say sculpturesque. 
It prints self-stick labels, in your choice of font — 

As handy and helpful as Wanda could want. 

It gives mailing addresses an elegant touch, 

But it’s also for folders and boxes and such. 



And if Wanda should wonder, when waxing profound, 

If her data is safe when she isn’t around, 

She’ll be happy to see nestled under the tree 
The PassProof security kit, so that she 
Will be able to seal off each drive slot and port; 

She can make her Mac safe and secure as a fort. 

There are plates to screw in (for the ports in the back) 
And a floppy-drive key-lock that matches the Mac. 
Then there’s software: a screen-saver/password affair. 
Type the password in right — or depart in despair. 



ow, Nelson, my nephew, is barely thirteen; 

It’s rare that a game isn’t up on his screen. 

Solarian II was the gift by his name, 

A noisy and fun-to-play outer-space game. 

It’s for color Macs only, but boy, he’ll be hooked — 
Most addictive game out there, the last time I looked. 
The nicest thing is that Solarian II 
Is shareware: it’s cheap (and no sales tax is due). 





M[y computer consultant, a favorite of mine, 

Got The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. 
The title’s horrendous (a little extreme) 

And it aiins my poetry’s rhythmical scheme. 

But the book is superb, makes you think and relax, 
And it’s all about interface (not just the Mac’s). 

There are essays from Apple and from M.I.T. 

They are clever and clear, au courant as can be. 




And in case he wants something to read just for kicks. 

He’ll find plenty to do reading Stupid Mac Tricks. 
You guessed it: a book (and a diskette to boot) 
With Talking Moose, EyeCon, and other good loot. 

And while we’re on books: I discovered that Miles, 

My graphic designer, was there in the files. 

He has only begun to do work on his Mac, 

So he’s getting a sweet little Mac paperback: 

The Little Mac Book. It’s a first-timer’s guide, 

A short introductory book to provide 
The basics of pointing and clicking and stuff, 

In case the Mac manual isn’t enough. 




Warm yourself in Flowfazcr’s glow. A Duskeiie keeps disk drives 
snug while ihe fin betr:iys a Protector Shark’s presence. 



Now , a six-year-old neighbor of mine, Tiny Tom, 

Has as parents some folks who enjoy CD ROM. 

To find out his present, I took a quick look; 

The lucky kid’s getting a new Discis Book. 

These silvety CD ROM stotybooks hold 
Traditional tales, all terrifically told. 

You hear a voice read them; you follow along 
The words on the screen like a “bouncing-ball” song, 

As they highlight in turn while the reader goes on. 

And the bright illustrations are gorgeously drawn. 

There is music, and color, and pages that “turn”; 

It’s a wonderful way for a child to learn. 

If you leave your Mac on while you go get caffeine. 

And it sits there all day, it might bum in your screen. 

So to Macintosh people whose screens are at risk, 

Santa’s bringing a screen-saver program on disk. 

The Protector Shark screen saver tends to produce 
A carnivorous shark when your Mac’s not in use. 

It swims back and forth on your screen hunting meat, 
Pursuing a diver it’s trying to eat. 

But it’s also a game; when ol’ Sharkey appears, 

The lone diver is y'ou; press a key to shoot spears! 

(Wlien you’re working too late, and you’re starting to crack. 
Put the real rubber fin up on top of your Mac.) 



If variety sounds like it’s more thrilling still, 

Maybe Pyro or After Dark 2 fills the bill. 

They both come with folders of modules to use; 
Tty fireworks, lightning, whatever you choose. 
Or a message, a clock, or some shimmering art. 



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Fill your not-in-use screen with the pix in your heart. 
(Both prognims have blossomed by leaps and by bounds; 
The new After Dark even has digitized sounds!) 

save strangest for last, that’s what I always say, 

And Todd Rundgren’s Flowfazer’s the weirdest today. 

It’s a bit Californian, you might say New Age, 

For its soothing displays make your mind disengage; 

At times it’s a liquidy lava-lamp glow, 

At others, a spiraling, shimmering show. 

All the screen savers work on all Macintosh screens. 

But, of course, they’re more striking on color machines. 

went searching for Fd, the ad agency guy; 

He’s a musical MIDI-head, with a supply 
Of cables and keyboards hooked up to his Mac, 

He’s forever unplugging his modem-port jack. 

So into his sack this year Santa Claus flings 
An ABCD Box to simplify things. 

Into each of its ports (there are four in a row) 

A modem or interface cable can go. 

Tlien the whole thing plugs in to the Mac, and it’s nice: 
Ed just punches a button to choose a device. 

have quite a few friends in New York, where the dust 

Tends to gather so fast that it leaves ’em nonplussed. 

So for people with disk drives exposed to such air, 

A Duskette ought to make sterling stocking-stuff fare. 

It’s a black rubber cover that fits in the slot, 

Keeping dust out, and insects — whatever you’ve got. 




Whai’s nerd for Nod? From left to right: the ABCD Box, 
two DisCoasiers, parts of the PassPronf security kit, a 
DibelWriter Printer, books, a marbleized mou.sepad, and 
the Nadn Chair. 



I m sure Uncle Iiw wants another hard disk 

To hold all his memos and mailings and misc. 

But hard disks cost money, and also they weigh 
Enough to substantially slow Santa’s sleigh. 

So instead he’ll be getting some more storage space 
In the form of DiskDoubler, a disk-saving grace. 

It works in the Finder, and here’s the surprise: 

It shrinks any file to a much smaller size. 

And then later, when you need the process reversed. 

Must you Quit from your program, expand the file first? 

Wliy, no; use the regular Open command. 

Select the right file, and then watch it expand. 

v3it 28 inches away from your screen,” 

Said somebody smart to my neighbor Noreen. 

(There’s concern in the press that a color display 
Can emit radiation to that far away.) 

So she’s getting (by air freight — those eight antlered steeds). 
An extra-long keyboard cord — just what she needs. 

She can type up to six feet away from her Mac, 

Now if only her kids cut her half as much slack! 

The gift for my mom is an idyllic fit: 

America Online — a (free) starter kit. 



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M 

A page from the Discis Books version of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale 
of Benjamin Bunny. Click on the speakers, and a voice reads 
text; point to a word, and the voice will pronounce and define it. 
On request, the program can also pronounce and spell any part 
of the illustration. 




Peter replied - ' The 
scarecrow in Mr. 
McGregor’s garden," and 
described how he had 
been chased about the 
^rden, and had dropped 
his shoes and coat. 

Ov Little Benjamin sat 
down beside his cousin, 
and assured him that Mr. 



McGregor had gone out in 
a gig, and Mrs. McGregor 
also; and certainly for the 



day, because she vs-as 
\searing her best bonnet. 



Benjomin Bunny 




\ 



H 



It’s a service, known sometimes as simply AO, 

That you call with your modem — a great place to go. 

It’s got icons and menus — familiar terrain; 

(It’s a wee bit addictive, but who can complain?) 

There are movie reviews, stock and weather reports, 

And there’s live conversation, a chat line of sorts. 

There’s a Macworld Online (what will they think of next?) 
With a searchable index of back-issue text. 



For Dad, on the other hand, Santa had found 

The gift for the guy who likes sitting around. 

In fact, since he sits for eight hours a day. 

The small of Dad’s back sometimes starts to give way. 
So under the tree, what will Father find there? 

Not a disk, not a drive, but instead, Nada Chair. 

It’s hard to explain, but not hard to put on; 

For many who wear it the back pain is gone. 

Let’s see now . . . the padded part goes on your back; 
You tighten the knee straps to take up the slack. 

The upshot: your knees are supporting your spine, 

A comfy and (so they say) healthy design. 



mat 



a glorious evening, surveying that list — 

Wliy, I didn’t believe such a file could exist! 

And from millions of options. Saint Nicholas plucks 
A majority costing below 50 bucks. 

Wlien I checked my clock radio, midnight had passed. 
And 1 knew that I’d best get some shut-eye at last. 

But before I logged off, there was one final thing . . . 
To reveal one more item that Santa would bring . . . 
After buddies, and bosses, and distant in-laws, 

I decided to see what he’ll give Mrs. Claus. 



Wh 



en I saw what it was, I broke out in a grin. 

For it wasn’t expensive, it didn’t plug in. 

He’d found just the gift that would light up her Mac: 
Her very own custom-made HyperCard stack. 

Any person could do it, it hadn’t been hard; 

But his love and affection were there on each card. 
No, he wasn’t an artist, but back in his shop 
He’d drawn elves at the edges, and toys at the top. 
To move through the stack, you could click on a star. 
I sat and I marveled, entranced from afar 
For the text was a poem he’d written his dear, 

Mrs. Claus will receive nothing nicer this year. 



And the final card says, before fading from sight, 

“Happy Holidays, all, and to all a good night!’’ 



See Wlicre to Buy under **Santa*s Spec Sheet,** on page 367, 
for iffortnation about products in this article. 

David Pogue is a Macworid contributing ed. 

And he wishes our readers a great year ahead. 



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Networking 
for the 
Novice 



Creating and designing an AppleTalk 
network isn't difficult to do. Just remember 
these basic rules. 



n here they were, fresh out of their cartoUvS — Will’s new 
Macintosh llci and UiscrWriter IINT. “Excellent,” thought 
Will, “my fledgling guitar-design firm now has the poten- 
tial to be truly successful and astonishing.” In no time, Will had a CAD 
program up and running, and he began sketching out a flame-red 
double-cutaway solid-body with an offset waist. A few hours later, mar- 
veling at his handiwork. Will decided that a crisp laser print of his new 
design was in order. But how to hook up the LaserWriter? □ “Heinous!” 
Will said aloud. “I only now realize that 1 know nothing about connect- 
ing computers and peripherals to achieve my artistic yet profit-oriented 
goals!” □ Scowling at the nest of cables and connectors at his feet. Will 
suddenly jumped back. Pixel by pixel, an apparition began taking form. 
Bearded and wise, the figure addressed Will in a mystical tone of voice: 
“Ah, my young friend, perhaps I can be of assistance. Let me show you 
how to set up a network that will allow your ideas to reach fruition.” 
□ Will, taken aback, snapped, “Who are you? And why should 1 care 
about computer networks — all I want is a printout of my new guitar?” 
□ “Allow me to answer those questions in series,” the figure replied. “I 
am Dwayne, and I come from the future. Your cr>' has been heard. You 
are not alone in your disinterest in the esoterica of networking, but 
you must understand that connecting a UiserWriter to a Macintosh 



o 

Brita Meng 



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NETWORKING FOR THE NOVICE 



requires the creation of an AppleTalk 
network.” 

“That stuff is for serious geeks,” 
exclaimed Will. “I’m just a designer 
trx'ing to make a buck.” 

“Nonsense,” replied Dwayne. 
“Anyone can set up a useful AppleTalk 
network without much trouble. You 
just have to know your options, plan 
wisely, and keep in mind some basic 
networking mles. 

“By following these rules,” 
Dwayne intoned, “you’ll be able to 
expand your network easily, and soon 
you’ll be doing much more than just 
printing out a sketch of your guitar. 
You can share files and peripherals 
other than laser printers, exchange 
electronic mail, and run multiuser 
applications. Such capabilities will 
become important — even neces- 
sary — as your company grows.” 
Dwayne raised one eyebrow. “You do 
expect your company to be success- 
ful, don’t you?” 

Will nodded enthusiastically. 
“Well then,” responded Dwayne, “the 
most important thing to remember is 
that any network really consists of 
only tw'o things: hardware and soft- 
ware. Besides computers and print- 
ers — networking types call them 
nodes — other hardware items include 
the cabling and any connectors nec- 
essary to connect the nodes together. 
Then, each node must run software 
that follows a predefined set of rules, 
or a protocol, to communicate with 
other nodes. In your case, the proto- 
col is AppleTalk.” 

“If I understand your most im- 
pressive language correctly,” Will said 
hesitantly, “I can see that I already 
have the two nodes I need. But 1 ap- 
parently forgot to buy the software.” 

“Perhaps not,” Dwayne said with 
a smile. “First, let’s look at ways you 
can connect your two nodes.” 

Daisy-Chain Solutions 

He reached into his jacket, pulled out 
a piece of paper, and examined it. 
“The first steps in creating a network 
include determining how fast the 
network needs to move data, decid- 
ing its layout, or topology^, and finally, 
choosing the cabling to use.” 

“For your purposes, I think 
LocalTalk transmission speeds of 
230.4 kilobits per second will be more 



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than adequate. Because your Mac and 
LaserWriter are less than 1000 feet 
apart, I recommend a simple daisy- 
chain topology with LocalTalk-com- 
patible cabling.” 

Will was taken aback. “Why does 
the distance between my nodes mat- 
ter?” he asked. 



“An excellent question,” answered 
Dwayne. “Different types of cabling 
have varying electrical characteris- 
tics — resistance, in particular. When 
signals travel over wire, the resistance 
of the wire causes a cenain amount 
of signal loss per foot of cable. TTie 
higher the gauge of the wire, the 




Three options for AppleTalk network connectors: (clockwise from left) Nuvotech's self-terminating TurboNet ST; 
Farallon Computing’s PhoneNet Connector, which requires the resistor below it for termination; and Apple's self- 
terminating LocalTalk. 



CONNECTORS AND CABLES 

Company Product 


DIN-8 


DB-g 


DB-25 


Cable 


AESP 


CompuTalk 


$75 


$75 






Apple Computer 


LocalTalk Connector Kit DIN 8 


$75 


$75 








IO meter extension 








$75 




25-meter extension 








$125 


Belkin Components 


BelTalk 


$69 


$69 






Belkin Components 


QiiikNet 


$49 


$54 






Data Spec 


ModuNet 


$39.95 


$43.95 


$47.95 




Data Spec 


ModuNet E2 


$44.95 


$49.95 






Farallon Computing 


PhoneNet Connector 


$59.95 


$59.95 


$75 




Farallon Computing 


PhoneNet StarConnector 


$29.95 


$29.95 








500-foot twisted-pair cable 








$100 




14-foot RJ-1 1 extension 








$5 




25-foot RJ-1 1 extension 








$7 




25-foot RJ-45 extension 








$12 




PhoneNet-to-LocalTalk cable 








$9.95 


Infotek 


QuickNet 


$49 


$45 






Laser Connection 


Q-Talk 


$59 


$59 






Nuvotech 


TurboNet 


$49.95 


$49.95 






Nuvotech 


TurboNet ST 


$59.95 


$59.95 






Sitka 


Toleconnector 


$39.95 


$39.95 






Trimar USA 


CompuNet 


$29.95 


$29.95 







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shoner the distance a signal can travel 
effectively.” 

“So when I’m picking cables, all I 
have to worry about is how far apart 
the nodes are,” concluded Will. 

“Not quite,” said Dwayne. “When 
you create an AppleTalk network in a 
daisy-chain layout, every node must 
have its own connector box. The 
number of connector boxes — and 
thus the number of nodes — on a net- 
work also influences how far a signal 
can go. That’s because eveiy connec- 
tor box has its own resistance. As a 
result, a daisy-chain topology — even 
though it’s the easiest to set up — of- 
fers the shortest maximum network 
length. It also restricts the number of 
nodes possible on the network.” 

“What exactly are the limits on 
daisy chains?” Will asked. 

“Well, LocalTalk connector kits 
from Apple can handle up to 32 nodes 
on a network that spans 1000 feet. 
LocalTalk-compatible connectors that 
use telephone wire — like Farallon’s 
PhoneNet Connector or Nuvotech’s 
TurboNet ST — can handle up to 24 
nodes on an 1800-foot network,” an- 
swered Dwayne, reaching into his 
satchel. “I happen to have two con- 
nector kits right here — one of them 
ought to do the trick.” 

Dwayne squinted at the first con- 



nector and sadly shook his head. 
“Both your Mac and LaserWriter re- 
quire network connectors with DIN- 
8 plugs. This connector has a DB-9 
plug. I’m afraid it won’t do. I keep that 
connector around just in case a net- 
work includes an older Mac or older 
LaserWriter.” Dwayne reached into his 
pocket again and pulled out another 
connector. “This one will work,” he 
said, plugging in the cables and con- 
nector boxes. 

“Now,” announced Dwayne, “for 
the AppleTalk software you think you 



forgot.” He turned on Will’s Mac and, 
with a wizardlike flip of the mouse, 
selected the Chooser desk accessory. 
“You see, the AppleTalk software you 
need comes with the Mac and the 
DiserWriter. For the Mac to send and 
receive AppleTalk signals, all you have 
to do is turn on AppleTalk. Then, the 
Mac can see your I^serWriter on the 
network.” 

With a cvy of thanks, Will imme- 
diately printed his design. As Dwayne 
turned to leave, Will looked up. “At 
the risk of revealing my dweebdom,” 



DAISY-CHAIN lOPOLOGY 

In a daisy-chain configuration, each network node (A) has a network 
connector (B), and cable (C) is strung between each of the nodes. There 
isn’t one long cable. Instead, the cable from one node is attached to 
a connector, which has another cable attached to another node’s con- 
nector, and so on. You can use LocalTalk, PhoneNet, or any other Local- 
Talk-compatible connectors and cable to create a daisy-chain netw'ork. 




SHARING PERIPHERALS 






Vendor 


Product 


Price 


Other 


Apple Computer 


ImageWriter It/LO LocalTalk Dption 


$139 


LocalTalk Interface for ImageWriter II 


Hayes Microcomputer Products 


HayesConnect 


S79 


software allows Hayes modem to be shared over network 


Hayes Microcomputer Products 


Smartmodem 2400M 


$499 


internal Mac II modem that can be shared over the network 


Shiva Corporation 


DDS Connect 


$99 


PC Access to NetModem and NetSerial 


Shiva Corporation 


DDS Dial-In 


$99 


(for 3 users}, requires NetModem orTeleBridge 


Shiva Corporation 


NetModem V.32 


$1999 


allows sharing of 9600-bps modem, remote dial-in to network 


Shiva Corporation 


NotModem V2400 


$599 


allows sharing of 2400-baud modem, remote dial-in to network 


Shiva Corporation 


NetSerial 


$399 


allows 1 RS-232 device to be shared over network 


Solana Electronics 


C-Server 


$695 


allows 3 RS-232 devices to be shared over network 


Xecom 


Newport Data Modems 


$329-$349 


internal modems for SE. SE/30. II. and Portable that can 
be shared over the network 


Xecom 


Newport Fax/Oata Modems 


$599-$899 


internal fax and data modems for SE. SE/30. II. and Portable 
that can be shared over the network 


Xecom 


QuadPort II Fax 


$2399 


four fax modems on one Mac II board that can 
be shared over the network 


Xecom 


OuadPort II 2400MNP5 


$1799 


four 2400-baud modems on one Mac II board that can 
be shared over the network 


Xecom 


QuadPort II Fax/Oata 


$2999 


four fax and data modems on one Mac II board that can 



be shared over the network 



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205 




NETWORKING FOR THE NOVICE 



BRIDGES AND GATEWAYS 



Vendor 


Product 


Local 

Router 


Remote 

Router 


Ethernet 

Router 


Token-Ring 

Router 


Other 


Price 


Andrew KMW Systems 


NetAxcess 


O 


C 


0 


O 


connects to AS/400 


$3995 


or System/3 


Apple Computer 


AppleTalk Internet Router 


O 


0 


• 


• 




$399 


APT Communications 


ComTalk 


• 


G 


• 


• 


also offers shared serial ports 


$3250-512,000 


Avatar Corporation 


MacMainFrame 


O 


c 


0 


• 




$2495-$4495 




Token Ring Gateway 


o 












Avatar Corporation 


MacMainFrame 


o 


c 


0 


o 


remote access to IBM mainframe 


$2495-$4495 




SDLC Gateway 














Cactus Computer 


BroadTalk to 


o 


o 


0 


0 


gateway to broad-band LAN 


$2985 




LocalTalk Gateway 














Cayman Systems 


GatorBox 


o 


o 


• 


c 




$2995 


Compatible Systems 


Ether Route 


o 


o 


0 


c 




$1495 


Corporation 
















Digital Communications 


MacirmaLan 802.2 


o 


o 


0 


• 




$3995-$5995 


Association 


Gateway Server 














Digital Communications 


MacirmaLan SDLC 


o 


o 


o 


c 


remote access to IBM mainframe 


$4495-56495 


Association 


Gateway2 Server 














Engage Communication 


SyncRouter 


o 


o 


0 


o 


bridges AppleTalk LANs over Tl, fiber- 


$1895 














optic, Digital Data Service, satellite links 




Tarallon Computing 


PhoneNat Liaison 


• 


• 


• 


o 




$395 


Hayes Microcomputer 


InterBridge 


• 


• 


0 


o 




$799 


Products 
















Network Rosourcos 


MultiGate 2000 


o 


o 


• 


o 


also offers gateways to broad band 


$1195-$2395 


Corporation 












and fiber-optic LANs 




Northern Telecom 


LANstar AppleTalk 


c 


o 


0 


o 


offers gateway to LANstar networks 


$200 




Bridge 














Nuvotech 


TurboBrIdge 


• 


o 


o 


o 




$499 


Pingenierie 


InterTalk ^2 


• 


o 


o 


o 




$650 


Shiva Corporation 


EtherGate 


o 


c 


• 


o 


also offers shared serial port 


$2399 


Shiva Corporation 


FastPath 


o 


o 


• 


o 




$2795 


Shiva Corporation 


NetBridge 


• 


c 


0 


o 




$499 


Shiva Corporation 


TeleBridge 


o 


• 


o 


c 


also supports remote dial-in to network 


$499 


Solana Electronics 


H-Server 


o 


• 


o 


c 


also supports synchronous transmissions 


$695 


Solana Electronics 


l-Server 


• 


o 


0 


G 




$695 


Solana Electronics 


R-Server 


• 


• 


0 


o 




$595 


Tri-Data Systems 


Netway 1000 


o 


o 


0 


o 


connects to IBM host 


$4995-$! 4,495 


Tri-Data Systems 


Netway 2000 


o 


o 


o 


c 


connects to IBM host, supports Novell IPX 


$4995-513,995 


Tri-Data Systems 


MaxWay 500 


• 


• 


• 


• 


also supports Novell IPX 


$5495 


The Wollongong Group 


MacGateWay AT 


o 


o 


• 


o 




$2295 



• = yes; O - no 



he said, “I have yet another question. 
If I bring niy talented friend Ned into 
my humble operation, can 1 make him 
a iKKle too?" 

"Oh yes," Dwayne replied. "Just 
buy another identical connector kit 
and hook Ned’s computer to either 
your DiserW l iter or your Mac. In fact, 
you can add as many nodes as that 
cabling allows in similar fashion. But 
whatever you do, make sure your 
daisy-chain cabling doesn't form a 
closed loop. A loop causes signal re- 



flections on the cable and that would 
be," Dwayne smiled, "heinous." 

Time Passes 

Reappearing a few months later, 
Dwayne was visibly surprised to find 
ten guitar designers jammed into the 
tiny space. When he saw Dwayne 
appear. Will jumped up and maneu- 
vered his way through the crowded 
room. 

"How timely of you to drop by," 
he cried. "We are about to move our 



gushing busine.ss to the top floor of 
an imposing office building down- 
town, and I am badly in need of more 
network i n fi )rma t i( )ii . " 

Dwayne reassured Will that the 
present chaos could be brought un- 
der control. "In fact," he saitl, "there 
are three ways to solve your network 
quandary'. 

"The first .solution involves put- 
ting a ref)eater on your dai.sy^-chain 
network. Remember that resistance 
causes network signals to deterionite, 



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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 





BACKBONE TOPOLOGY 

In a backbone (sometimes called a trunk) configuration, one solid length 
of cable extends across the entire network. Network n(3cles connect to 
that cable via drops (A) or connection points scattered along the cable. 
Once a node is attached to the backbone, you can connect other devices 
to the node in a daisy-chain configuration (B). Connectors like PhoneNet 
or 'furboNet let you connect nodes to a backbone of telephone wire 
using HJ-11 telephone modular wall jacks as drops. 

Another popular medium for backbones is Ethernet coaxial cable. 
Because Ethernet has a lO-Mbit/sec data rate, information can travel faster 
over it than over typical twisted-pair telephone wire, making Ethernet 
more approj^riate for high-traffic networks. Recently, vendors have 
started olTering twisted-pair Ethernet, a medium that combines the speed 
of Ethernet with the flexibility of telephone wire, 'fo run at Ethernet 
speeds over twisted-pair wire, there need to be two pairs of cable. To get 
to Ixtcal'falk speeds (230.4 Kbits/sec) rec|uires only one pair. 





PICKING THE RIGHT 
CONNECTOR 

Because different devices use 
different plugs, you may need 
to buy several versions of a 
LocaUalk-compatible connector 
box to create a LocalTalk net- 
work. Here's a head start to 
matching the right connector 
plug to the device. 

DIN-8 

Macintosh Classic, LC, Plus, 
Portable, SE, SE/30, If Ilex, 
llci, llfx, llsi, Apple lIGS, 

Apple lie*, ImageWriter II*, 
ImageWriter LQ*, LaserWriter 
lINT, LaserWriter UNIX 

DB-9 

Macintosh 128K, 512K, 512KE 
LaserWriter, LaserWriter Plus 
IBM PC. XT, AT, and 
compatibles* i 

DB-25 I 

Macintosh XL (Lisa) j 




limiting the length of the daisy-chain 
and the number of nodes on the net- 
work. A repeater lets you get around 
those restrictions by amplifying an 
y\pplcTalk signal so it can travel 
through several more thousand feet 
of cable and support more nodes.” 
‘‘Say no more,” exclaimed Will. “1 
am certain that anything involving an 
amplifier is the an.swer for me.” 
“Perhaps,” said Dwayne. “But it 
can be most awkward to run cable 
around doors, over ceilings, and down 
hallways just to maintain a daisy-chain 
connection between nodes. And with 
a daisy-chain topology, if any daisy- 
chain link gets di.sconnected, the 
whole network fails.” 

“Just like old Christmas-tree 
lights,” observed Will. “That indeed is 
a problem. Our new space has sev- 
eral doors and hallways.” 

Backbone Approach 

Dwayne nodded, “'fhe second alter- 
native abandons the daisy-chain to- 



pology for another, called the back- 
bone. In a backbone-style network, up 
to 48 nodes connect to one long 
length of twisted-pair telephone 
cable, instead of directly with other 
nodes. 

“Again, the gauge of the backbone 
wire affects the total length of the 
network,” he continued. “A network 
can mn up to 4500 feet if you use 22- 
gauge telephone wire as the back- 
bone. You can have up to a 3000-foot 
network with 24-gauge wire, while 26- 
gauge wire only permits an 1800-foot 
network.” 

“I can see how the backbone 
eliminates the Christmas-tree-light 
syndrome because I no longer need 
to woriy about broken network con- 
nections,” Will said hesitantly. “But 
won’t it still l^e most awkward to lay 
one long cable through the doors and 
walls?” 

Star Appeal 

“A perceptive comment indeed,” 
Dwayne complimented Will. “The 
backbone topolog>^ works best if your 
office is one large space. Since yours 

MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



isn’t, the most convenient way to 
connect your network will be with a 
third topology, called a star. This last 
option offers network reliability along 
with cabling convenience.” 

“.Most excellent!” Will exclaimed. 
“But how do I lay out the cable?” 
“That’s the beauty of the star,” 
Dwayne said with a smile. “You can 
use the telephone cabling that already 
exists in your office space. You sec, 
most installed telephone systems use 
4-vvire twisted-pair cable. But the 
telephone itself really needs only 2 
wires — one pair of that cabling. As a 
result, you can use the unused pair 
of wires as cabling for the AppleTalk 
network. If your AppleTalk connector 
boxes have RJ-11 twisted-pair jacks, 
that is.” 

“Speaking as a newly cost-con- 
.scious executive, I must say the star 
sounds ideal. I don’t have to run any 
cable to offices because all my offices 
already have phones,” mused Will. 

Dwayne nodded. “To create the 
network, all you do is connect those 
pairs of wires at a imnchdown block 
in the telephone closet. That lets 

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NETWORKING FOR THE NOVICE 



AppleTalk signals from one office 
node travel to the closet on their own 
pair of wires, then to the rest of the 
network from the closet, or bub'' 

Will rubbed his hands together 
with glee. “This seems too easy. The 
bountiful star will let me expand the 
network no matter how big my office 
space!” 

Branching Out 

“Easy there, cowboy,” Dwayne cau- 
tioned. “There are some limitations 
to the star topology — namely the 
number of branches that extend from 
your hub and the length of each 
branch.” 

“Don’t tell me,” Will moaned. 
“Wire resistance again.” 

“Yes,” Dwayne said. “Because of 
the way the star is laid out, AppleTalk 
signals can degrade quickly. And if the 
signal degrades too much, it becomes 
unrecognizable at nodes along the 
other branches, making your network 
extremely unreliable.” 

“To avoid this dreaded situation, 
you need a multiport repeater or star 
controller. These devices, which 
connect to the punchdown block in 
the telephone closet, amplify 
AppleTalk signals between network 
branches. 

“Multiport repeaters,” Dwayne 
continued, “increase cabling lengths 
for each branch and improve network 
reliability. This type of network is 
called an active star network, be- 
cause the star controller actively gen- 
erates clean signals along each 
branch.” 

“Do 1 have to install a multiport 
repeater to use the star topology^?” 
asked Will. 

“Not necessarily. Without a star 
controller or multiport repeater, your 
configuration would be called a pas^ 
sive star network,” Dwayne re- 
sponded. “The problem is that a pas- 
sive star network is less expandable; 
it can never have more than four 
branches. If there are four branches, 
each branch can have only 12 nodes 
on it. If you use 22-gauge telephone 
wire, each branch can extend 1125 
feet; 24-gauge wire allows 750-foot 
branches; 26-gauge wire, 450 feet. 

“If there are three branches, on 
the other hand, up to 16 nodes can 
attach to each branch. In that case, 

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with 22-gauge telephone wire, a 
branch can extend 1500 feet; using 24- 
gauge wire, a branch can measure 
1000 feet; and with 26-gauge wire, up 
to 600 feet.” 

Will nodded. “Those are indeed 
considerable limitations,” he agreed. 

“With an active star network,” 
Dwayne continued, “the restrictions 
are fewer. Depending on which 
multiport repeater you buy, you can 
have up to 12 ports, each of which 
can support 4 separate branches. And 
each port can handle branches up to 
3000 feel in length.” 

“Then the active star sounds like 
my network solution,” concluded Will. 
“With such a network In our new of- 
fice, our guitar designs will soon be 
all the rage.” 



Routing Directions 

Will’s prediction of success soon 
came true. His guitars appeared 
regularly in music videos and on 
concert stages all around the world. 
Dwayne dropped by to check in on 
his protege. A good thing, too, be- 
cause Will was in dire straits. 

“Like a cold beverage on a hot 
day, you again come to my rescue,” 
Will exclaimed when he saw Dwayne. 
“By expanding to another floor in this 
fine building, 1 fear we have brought 
our network to a most horrible 
grinding halt. 

“1 now have two active star net- 
works — one for each floor,” he went 
on. “But It Is terribly inconvenient 
being unable to print on the down- 
stairs laser printer when 1 happen to 



OTHER NETWORK PRODUCTS 



Product 


Vendor 


Description 


Price 


Repeaters, Concentrators, 
and Hubs 


AESP 


CompuTalk Plus 


3 ports; 4 ports: 5 ports 


$179; $209: 








$249 


Cactus Computer 


StarBurst 


8 ports 


$2046 


Farallon Computing 


PhoneNet Repeater 


reclocks and retransmits 


$495 


signals 


Farallon Computing 


PhoneNet StarController 300 


12 ports 


$1295 


Nuvotech 


TurboStar 


12 ports 


$1795 


Photonics Corporation 


PhotoLink 


4-node infrared AppleTalk 


$1195 






transmitter 




Sitka 


Repeater 


retransmits signals 


$189 


LocalToik Accelerators 


Dayna Communications 


DaynaTalk 


boosts rates up to 850 kbps 


$139 


Dayna Communications 


SpeedGuard Collision Filter^ 


prevents packet collisions 


$69.95 






on DaynaTalk 




Sitka 


Flashbox DIN-8 


boosts rates up to 770 kbps 


$189 


Sitka 


Flashbox DD-9 


boosts rates up to 770 kbps 


$189 


LocalTalk Access for 








Other Computers 








Apple Computer 


Apple II Workstation Card 


LocalTalk interface for Apple II 


$249 


Apple Computer 


LocalTalk PC Card 


for AT bus PCs 


$299 


Dayna Communications 


DaynaTalk MC Card 


for MicroChannel PCs 


$399 


Dayna Communications 


DaynaTalk PC Card 


for AT bus PCs 


$299 


DayStar Digital 


LT200 Connection MC 


for MicroChannel PCs 


$395 


DayStar Digital 


LT200 Connection PC 


for AT bus PCs 


$249 


EMAC 


SpeedTalk 


for AT bus PCs 


$149 


Horculos Computer 


Hercules Network 


combo video board/ 


$369 


Technology 


Card Plus 


LocalTalk board 




Information Presentation 


IPT23Q/A AppleTalk 


multiport LocalTalk interface 


$495 


Technologies 


Interface Card 


for UNIX systems 




Sitka 


FlashCard 


for AT bus PCs 


$239 



• For uso with DaynaTalk. 



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be upstairs, and then not being able 
to use the upstairs file server when 
I’m downstairs.” 

Glancing at several ragged holes 
drilled into the ceiling, Dwayne mur- 
mured that he understood. “Your 
problem is very easily solved, Will,” 
he said. “What you need is a way to 
connect the upstairs network with the 
downstairs network.” 

“How?” Will asked, aiming a pa- 
per airplane at one of the holes in the 
ceiling. 

“With a router,"' Dwayne an- 



swered, dodging the wayward air- 
plane. “A router lets you create an 
internetwork — internet, for short — 
out of your two separate AppleTalk 
networks. The network on one side 
can communicate with the other, but 
only when it needs to. At the same 
time, the router keeps network per- 
formance from slowing down. Only 
data that needs to flow from one net- 
work to another gets transferred 
across the router. 

“Because your two networks are 
close together, it will simply be a 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



matter of connecting one port of each 
star controller to a local router. But if 
you ever open a branch office, you 
can use a remote router to make the 
branch’s network part of the internet 
too. 

“If network traffic becomes too 
heavy, causing network response to 
become sluggish, you’ll need a gate- 
way. Gateways let you connect the 
internet with a backbone cable — 
Ethernet, for example — that provides 
faster transmission rates than 
LocalTalk. The layout of such an 
internet is exactly like a backbone, 
except that entire networks can attach 
to the backbone, not just individual 
nodes.” 

Zoning Rules 

“I fear that I must be becoming a net- 
work geek,” mused Will, “because 
another question occurs to me. Won’t 
this be terribly confusing to the net- 
work novices on my staff — having ac- 
cess to two or three networks instead 
of one?” 

“Well, once you have an internet, 
you can divide it into zones so it looks 
less complex to users. Zones are a 
logical way to group networks on an 
internet. 

“For example, Will,” Dwayne con- 
tinued, “you could name your zones 
Upstairs and Downstairs. When you 
open the Chooser, you see the names 
of the zones. Select Upstairs and 
LaserWriter, and only the printers 
upstairs appear in the list of possible 
printers. That way, everyone knows 
exactly where they’re printing to. The 
same goes for other devices on the 
network — file servers, modems, and 
so on.” 

Will was most impressed. “Never 
would I have thought that computer 
networks would be such a big part of 
my humble plan to design electric 
guitars. I owe you one, oh mighty 
Dwayne from the future. How can I 
repay you for your most triumphant 
guidance?” 

Dwayne just smiled. “Don’t worry 
about it. Will. You already have.” With 
that, Dwayne mysteriously vanished, 
leaving behind on Will’s desk only a 
holographic business card: Dwayne’s 
Vintage Guitars. □ 

Sec Where to Buy for contact information. 

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SIARIOPOLOGY 



In a star topology', many network branches connect at a centml location, 
usually a punchdown block (A) located in a telephone wiring closet. The 
network can be easily reconfigured from that central location, making the 
star the most flexible topology for a network. A node connects to a 
branch at an RJ-11 telephone modular wall jack (B), which acts as a drop 
point. There can be multiple drops (C) along the length of a branch. Once 
one node is attached to a branch, other devices can be daisy-chained to 
that node (D). Because twisted-pair telephone cabling is the basis for 
star wiring, you should use twisted-pair connector boxes — like PhoneNei 
and TurboNet — to attach nodes to the network. 

There are two different types of star configurations: active and pas- 
sive. An active star network, like the one shown below, has a multiport 
repeater (E) connected at the hub. The multiport repeater takes signals 
from a branch and repeats them at full strength along all the other 
branches. A passive star network has no multiport repeater; the lack 
of a multiport repeater considerably limits the number of nodes and 
branches on the star, as well as the length of each branch. 





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Pcrhap^ wc* shoiilcl have asked ihe 
architect of the beautiful new 
Macintosh (iaine Hall of I'ame facil 
ity to make the building look like 
the Alamo instead of a j»ianl Ilex. 
Because lately we’ve been feeling; 
rather besieged, rhe (iame Mall ol 
Fame is, after all, the Last Stand for 
dedicated Macintosh gamers, who 
have suffered yet another year of 
fewer choices than have their 
brothers and sisters using IBM. 
Amiga, and even the ancient (lorn 
modore 6*i computers. (Some have 
thrown in the towel and purcha.sed 
Nintendo.) We still believe that the 
.Mac is a great gaming computer — 
each year we find da//ling evidence 
of this — but while game quality im- 
proves, the numbers look worse 
and worse. Is the cavalry In sight? 
We don’t exactly hear hootbeats, On 

BY STEVEN LEVY 








the other hand, optimists like to think that 
Apple’s new econo-Macs (discussed elsewhere 
in this issue) will tempt more publishers to de- 
velop games for our favorite computer. 

But that’s not the worst of it. We’ve also had 
to cope with a perfectly dreadful trend in copy 
protection: the Surprise Quiz. Remember when 
you showed up for class and, first thing, Mrs. 
Finchbutter told you to tear off a sheet of tablet 
paper and answer some questions about 
Mesopotamia or whatever the homework was the 
previous night? Same thing happens when you 
play a game these days. We didn’t like it in the 
seventh grade, and we hate it now. Even though 
you paid for the software, and presumably should 
be able to play it without harassment, all too of- 
ten you can’t play the game before answering a 
question like “Wliat is the 9th word on the 17th 
line on page 50 in the manual?” You are then 
required to locate the (unpaginated) manual, 
count out the proper number of pages and lines 
and words, and then provide the answer. If you 
make a typing mistake, a siren rings and the 
screen blinks COPYRIGHT CRIMINAL! in red let- 
ters, and the disk ejects itself across the room. 
Or else you have to match a picture with a word 
on one of those little wheels, only the picture 
on the screen doesn’t exactly match the pictures 
on the wheel, which really doesn’t matter since 
the wheel is buried somewhere on your desk, 
or someone threw it out by mistake and you have 
to order another one for $15. 

Most galling of all is that software publishers 
think they’re doing you a favor by using this “off- 
disk” form of copy protection! Well, the Game 
Hall of Fame is now on record: Don’t do us those 
favors. If you want to fight pirates, join the navy — 
don’t punish paying customers. We didn’t dock 
games this year for inflicting upon us those odi- 
ous Surprise Quizzes, but in the future we will 
look verrr\^ darkly upon those offenders who, by 
presenting unpleasant obstacles to using their 
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Sky Shadow (Casady tr Greene) Early in a Sky Shadow 
game — a game that could eat up eight straight hours— you put 
your ship down for a landing to get repaired and resupplied with 
bombs. Then it's off to shoot more RazoropersI 



Are we sounding testy on what is, after all, a 
mountaintop experience for our new inductees? 
Sorr\'. With all that unpleasantness aside, we can 
turn to more agreeable matters. There were a 
number of great games considered for induction 
into the Hall this year. In fact, so compelling were 
some of the candidates that our deadline kept 
slipping as our Gaming Kahuna — the gentleman 
identified in the above byline — felt it necessary 
to consider some games for hours on end, and 
some for several days. Sometimes requiring him 
to skip meals, or to greet the dawn from the 
wrong end, or even — he is embarrassed at this — 
to ignore a charming though excessively vocal 
infant, whose antics are almost as amusing as 
the plumber’s in Pipe Dream. 

The Macintosh Game Hall of Fame, while the 
ultimate test of excellence in Mac entertainment 
software, is a subjective effort by the aforemen- 
tioned Kahuna. He does consult with a nomi- 
nating panel that suggests games for consider- 
ation and perceptively discusses the relative 
merits of the candidates. Unlike its baseball 
counterpart, the Mac Game Hall of Fame does 
not consider moral character as a criterion; 
rather, we value innovation, playability, depth, 
addictiveness, malleability, mental challenge, 
amount of adrenaline produced, and ideally, 
the ability to take the lessons learned from 
playing the game into the wider world. 

Without further ado, here is the class of ’90. 

Best Simulation Game: Bomber 

A great simulation provides more than an enter- 
taining escape: it evokes an entire world. (Often 
the real-life alternatives to these worlds aren’t 
nearly as pleasant and low-risk as the Mac ver- 
sions.) Stacked at the top of our list this year is 
Bomber, a fascinating HyperCard re-creation of 
air warfare in the European theater of World War 
II. Using simple yet historically accurate control- 
ling devices, you take on several roles: as pilot 
you fly the craft and run the mission; as naviga- 
tor you may change course; as gunner you shoot 
at marauding fighters; and as bombardier you 
control the run and drop the eggs. The annoy- 
ing drone of an airplane accompanies you 
throughout, and for some reason small ear- 
phones are included to enhance this noise. 
Complete 25 missions and you get to go home. 
(We haven’t done it yet, mainly because we’re 
afraid that, a la Catch 22, our commanding offi- 
cer would immediately increase the number.) 
Alternating periods of relative calm (flying to your 
destination) with white-knuckled terror (hitting 
heavy flak, or facing enemy fighters when you’ve 
been separated from your fleet). Bomber does 
an excellent job of resurrecting any number of 
lousy B movies. Joseph Heller fans note: Here 
are the Snowdens of yesteryear. 



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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



Best Sports Game: MacSki 

To read the promotional materials hyping this 
game you’d think it was a grim-faced and tech- 
nical skiing simulation, one of those dry and 
overly detailed games that swapped laughs for 
verisimilitude. (It even comes with a warning that 
you shouldn’t use MacSki in place of a “real” ski 
instructor.) Actually, the game is a hoot. As you 
shooosh downhill (with great digitized sound 
effects, particularly at sharp turns), you must 
avoid a cartoony collection of amusing obstacles, 
including hopping jackrabbits, medics bearing 
fallen competitors, and sex>' snow bunnies. Be- 
sides your being graded on standard stuff like 
speed and slalom gates, certain runs are scored 
on less traditional criteria. Like passing through 
tiny Stonehenge arches, or busting through 
snowmen, or — animal lovers, take cover — how 
many penguins you can mow down. Some real 
skill is required, especially for the more difficult 
runs, but even beach bums can pick up the ba- 
sics rather quickly — MacSki uses the mouse quite 
effectively to move your skier. And if you’re feel- 
ing creative, you have the option of designing 
your own ski runs. The only complaint is that 
when you’ve wiped out five times during a run 
(and believe us, this will happen to you on some 
of those steep slopes), an amusing-at-first-but- 
very-quickly-gets-old Saint Bernard rescues you. 
It takes forever, and you can’t speed it up. (For 
a review of MacSki, see Reviews in this issue.) 

Best Arcade Game: Pipe Dream 

You like arcade-style games and want something 
grittier than those insipid Mario brothers? Now 
there’s Pipe Dream, the game that pits you 
against a constant flow of pink sewage called 
flooze. (Don’t even think of what made it pink.) 
Even if you previously hadn’t considered 
plumbing a glamour profession, you’ll find Pipe 
Dream irresistible, not only because of the de- 
lightful carnival-like soundtrack and the bright 
graphics, but also because underneath it all is a 
seriously addictive strateg>' game. Once you get 
into Pipe Dream in a big way, you won’t be 
hearing the music — you’ll be too busy figuring 
out the complex series of twists and turns you 
use to connect pipe. And with 36 levels of play, 
the challenge far exceeds the ability of even the 
most precocious preteen. Sorry, kids: Pipe 
Dream might amuse you, but it’s really for adults. 
An added bonus is a stripped-down version you 
install as a desk accessory. When you find it on 
someone’s system, you know that person’s 
logged too many hours stemming flooze flow. 

Best Shoot-'em-up: Sky Shadow 

Patrick Buckland, who created Game Hall of 
Fame winner Crystal Quest, doesn’t quite re- 
create the thrill of his brilliantly original first ef- 




Bomber (InUne Design) At 17,000 feet your B-17 is flying in 
formation with other bombers on their way to Amiens to take out 
a fighter airfield. You have control not only of the instruments in 
the cockpit but also of those in the bomb bay and even in the 
fighter turrets. 




MacSki (XOR Corporation) An intrepid skier successfully negoti- 
ates the slalom flags and avoids squirrels, medics, snowmen, and 
various other debris. Had he been really sharp, though, he would 
have run over that little clock and picked up some time. 




PipeDream (Lucasfilm Games; distributed by Electronic Arts) 

A Pipe Dream game on Level 2. There are some nifty twists and 
turns, and enough points here to get to the trickier Level 3. But at 
this point there's nowhere to go — note the impending dead end. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



213 





fort, but this equally addictive shoot-’em-up will 
probably cause more carpal tunnel syndrome this 
year than a truckload of word processors could. 
Sky Shadow owes an obvious debt to the early 
eighties arcade game Defender: you control a 
laser-equipped bomber that flies over a scrolling 
landscape. But certain twists make Sky Shadow 
distinctive. One is that there are prisoner-of-war 
camps in the terrain; hit one and you hear a 
pained digitized groan that means you have lost 
all your points for that round. Another is that 
you must snare goodies hanging in the air that 
give you point bonuses; smart bombs (that clear 
the screen of foes); instant repairs; temporary' 
invulnerability; and the ability' to land, recharge 
your ship, and get more bombs. But the key to 
this game is racking up enough points on a given 
ship to shift into MegaMode. It’s like hitting all 
the bumpers on a pinball machine. Your speed 
doubles, you get more points for every'thing you 
hit, and everything happens so quickly that it 
seems only a superbeing can control events. Yet 
eventually you persist. Eventually in this case 
may encompass hundreds of hours, none of 
which have any socially redeeming value. In 
short, the essence of a good shoot-’em-up. (For 
a review of Sky Shadow, see Reviews, in this 
issue.) 

Best Brain Teaser: Ishido: The Way of Stones 

Soothing digitized wind chimes immediately in- 
form you that Ishido is one classy operation. The 
publishers have it that this is the computer ver- 
sion of an ancient oriental game of great renown, 
sort of a cross between go and mah-jongg. The 
credits thank several Zen roshis, an expert on 
ancient runes, and Timothy Leary*. But when you 
cut through all the hexagrams, advice from the 
computer oracle, and other trappings of the 
mystical East, you have the most compelling 
mental challenge since, well, go and mah-jongg. 
The elements of game play are fairly simple: you 




Ishido (Accoiado) That twinkle in the center of the board signifies 
that the player has completed a four-way, placing a stone in a 
space surrounded by four other stones, two of which match by 
color, and two by symbol. Sound tough? You betcha. 



have a virtual pouch of stones with various col- 
ors and symbols, and by matching them to other 
stones on a gridded game board, you try' to 
empty your pouch. The Zen version of a home 
run comes when you get what is called a fou7‘- 
way — dropping a stone in to match stones on 
all four sides. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. De- 
signer Michael J. Fcinberg has provided an en- 
trancing atmosphere that enhances game play; 
particularly charming are the textures of the 
stones rendered on a color Mac. And budding 
runeologists can design their own stone sets. 

Best Role-Playing Game: Legends of 
the Lost Realm 

For years now, the Game Hall of Fame has been 
looking for the role-playing epic that tops Wiz- 
ardry. Here it is. Legends of the Lost Realm es- 
chews the flash of some other recent dragon- 
and-dungeon efforts in favor of familiar types of 
conflicts done as well as can be imagined. Wliile 
originality is not its strong suit — we’re talking 
standard-issue D&D — Legends is sufficiently 
playable so that even a novice gamer would have 
no trouble forming a party and setting off in 
search of hidden treasures and gory violence. 
Motion in the perilous world of Tagor-Dal (why 
do these faux-medieval realms always have such 
dumb names?) is controlled by mouse move- 
ment. Likewise, a mouse-click or two will inform 
you on the status of your characters. Your handy 
pointing device controls even the complicated 
skirmishes between your party' and the various 
/Vmazons, stooges, and wild dogs you encounter 
in your quest to find the magic stafT that will save 
this particular world. 

If you’re at all inclined to the gestalt of mazes, 
the lure of spell-casting and enchanted weapons, 
the habit of making corpses undcad, and the 
peculiar charm of descending into darkness, lock 
yourself in a room with Legends of the Lost 
Realm and don’t forget to pack a lunch. 

Best Adventure Game: Where in Time 
Is Carmen Sandiego? 

With the fourth chapter in the Carmen Sandiego 
saga, the mysterious leader of an international 
(and time-traveling) cabal of imaginative thieves 
finally makes the Hall — we momentarily expect 
to hear that the plaque to Dark Castle is miss- 
ing. Because apparently the Sandiego gang, also 
known as V.I.L.E., will take anything, including 
Enrico Caruso’s tonsils and the original Santa 
Claus. Your job, as a fledgling detective in the 
Acme Agency, is to use the enclosed Chromo- 
skimmer 325i to engage in time travel, interv'iew 
witnesses and informers, identify the perpetrator, 
and nail the crook. Instead of a Crimestopper’s 
Notebook, you have an up-to-date American 
Desk Encyclopedia that yields putatively educa- 



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tional factoids to help interpret clues. Sophisti- 
cated adventure gamers might sniff at the rela- 
tive ease with which the crooks fall into line, but 
even'body else will get a kick out of chasing 
Carmen’s minions. Graphics and game play are 
top-notch — and besides, how else would you 
find out historical trivia like who the Capetians 
are and the inventor of corrective lenses? Best 
of all, unlike other adventure epics that require 
a few months’ labor before a payoff, this is bro- 
ken into discrete cases that take only a few min- 
utes each. And by the time you’ve solved the 80 
cases required to become the top detective, 
you’ll have ingested enough useless facts to be- 
come a “Jeopardy” contestant. 

Best Strategy Game: Stratego 

All too often when a classic board game is trans- 
lated to the computer the consumer eagerly 
spends several times the cost of the original 
(which invariably evokes fond memories of grimy 
fingers moving game pieces) and almost instantly 
comes down with a case of Is-That-All-There-Is?, 
as the realization dawns that it made more sense 
to leave well enough alone. Isn’t that right. Mo- 
nopoly fans? Scrabble nuts? Not so here. From 
the first alarum of the Napoleonic troops it’s clear 
that rather than diminishing the board-game 
experience, Stratego intensifies it. This is a soli- 
taire game (head-to-head players have to stick 
with the Milton Bradley hardware version), with 
the Macintosh providing the competition. But 
the rules are the same: you set up and manipu- 
late game pieces to capture your opponent’s flag 
before he or she (or the Mac) gets yours. Ar- 
ranging the board with the selection of officers, 
soldiers, miners, and bombs is easy, especially 
since you can save your favorite initial setups or 
choose from a collection of devastating arrange- 
ments. And it’s easy to tiy variations on the game, 
shifting from regulation play to the trickier 
Tournament Rules. The sound effects are amus- 
ing but not so obtrusive that you feel like turn- 
ing them off after two or three rounds. Best of 
all are the slick graphics: the rendition of the 
Bradley version is impressive enough, but tink- 
erers will enjoy customizing the battlefield and 
game pieces. The Game Hall of Fame admits that 
this choice was the toughest of all — wonderful, 
original strategy games like Panzer Battle, 
Blockout, and Faces stylishly burned up a lot of 
hours for us — but the elegant simplicity of this 
translation makes Mac Stratego an evergreen, a 
welcome addition to the Hail. □ 

See Where to Buy for contact information. 



Steven Levy, a Macworld columnist, is currently cit 
work on a book on artificial life. 



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Legends of the Lost Realm (Avalon Hill) After a nasty scuffle 
with four packs of wild dogs, a novice party of magicians, fighters, 
thieves, and shamans split the experience points and prepare to 
venture into the heart of darkness. 





Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? (Broderbund Software) 
With 26 hours investigation time remaining in the Chromoskimmer 
325i, your detective work has led you to Spain during the civil war. 
(Note the grim look on Picasso's face.) You learn a factoid about 
the period and continue looking for a time bandit in Carmen 
Sandiego's nefarious crew. 



Stratego (Accolade) The Stratego battlefield in midwar. The 
bottom half of the board is the human's side. Note the placement 
of the spy. strategically situated to ensnare the computer team's 
marshal when he unsuspectingly moves into the adjoining 
vacant space. 



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Enisublo Maynuto-Optical Disc Drive 



LASERSAFE 

Pros: Attention to amenities 
and engineering; custom cache and 
driver; vendor stability. Cons: Slow 
internal Ricoh mechanism. 

Company: Iomega. Requires: Mac 
SE; hard drive; System 6.0.3. 

List price: $4999, cartridge $299. 

In the March 1990 issue, 
Macworld looked at 16 eras- 
able optical disc systems that 
were priced similarly and that incor- 
porated drive mechanisms from one 
of two sources (Sony or Ricoh). Some, 
however, were nearly twice as fast 
as others. Although this market is 
crowded, it’s possible to make a drive 
stand out by providing extra software 
utilities, hardware enhancements, or 
hard work on low-level matters af- 
fecting speed. Iomega, distinguished 
by its unique Bernoulli drive sy^stems, 
has now entered the erasable optical 
market with the Iomega IiiserSafe, a 
product that offers enhancements in 
all three of these areas. 

Niceties 

The LaserSafe offers nearly all the key 
features called for in erasable opticals. 
The drive has a back-panel, button- 
settable SCSI address indicator, and 
SCSI termination switch (off/on); 
these seem like small considerations, 
unle.ss they’re absent and you have to 
set DIP switches in awkward spots on 
a circuit board. The software provides 
other practical amenities. First, 
Iomega provides software for format- 
ting erasable optical discs as a back- 
ground task under MultiFinder. Since 
formatting one side of a disc takes 
about 40 minutes on a Mac 11, this 
utility is obviously helpful to users 



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Iomega's LaserSafe 

who accumulate piles of graphics and 
database discs. Iomega's partitioning 
software supports up to ten disc par- 
titions per side. Also, the company 
includes a version of Iomega Work- 
shop, a .set of functions that simplify 
using an erasable optical to back up a 
standard hard drive. The LaserSafe 
takes either 512-bytes-per-scctor or 
1024-bytes-per-.sector erasable optical 
cartridges — the 1024-bytes-per-seccor 



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Credit for the Cache You can fine-tune cache 
settings for particular styles of use from this dialog 
box in the Iomega Workshop utility. The settings 
provided by Iomega are optimized for general use 
(transferring files that are a variety of lengths). 

MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



discs give somewhat faster perfor- 
mance, but the 512s let you make the 
LaserSafe the start-up disc. 

Fast Times. Fast Drive? 

Could you, in fact, use the DiserSafe 
as a start-up drive in place of a stan- 
dard hard drive and be happy with the 
arrangement? Despite Iomega’s im- 
pressive efforts to squeeze eveiy kilo- 
byte-per-second of performance out 
of the slower Ricoh drive (Ricoh’s 
disc-rotation speed is 1800 rpm versus 
Sony’s 2400), you probably w'on’t 
want to use this drive c^r any other 
erasable optical as your main storage 
unit. In benchmarks for the real 
world — launching application files, 
backing up a 40-megabyte hard 
drive — the LaserSafe would average 
third place with the 16 optical drives 
tested in March, behind the drives 
from Ui Cic and Pinnacle, but ahead 
of any Ricoh-based drive and most of 
the Sonys. 

The benchmarks based on SCSI 








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rcad-write speed quoted in Iomega’s 
advertising, which show the I^serSafe 
as dramatically faster than either 
competing Sony or Ricoh drives, are 
in fact actual numbers — for a particu- 
lar size of block transfer optimally 
matched to the LaserSafe’s built-in 
hardware cache. In testing, Iomega 
used an SE/30 as the Macintosh host, 
the 3.3 version driver software, blind 
data transfer, large blocks, and no 
verification. If you make copies of 
megabyte-size graphics files, you’ll see 
most of this speed; if you’re backing 
up lots of small files like letters to 
Mom, some of the speed benefits of 
the LaserSafe airangement disappear. 

Iomega wrote an optimized driver 
in assembler rather than a higher-level 
language, and included a hardware 
cache, which can be configured by the 
user with Iomega Workshop, to 
compensate for the mechanism’s lei- 
surely rotational speed (see “Credit 
for the Cache”). If you know you’ll 
always be dealing with large data 
blocks (a typical case), or if you have 
small or medium blocks of constant 
size (less typical), you can vary the 
cache settings to squeak out 10 to 20 
percent optimization over the Iomega 
preset values. It’s not the answer to 
every' data-transfer problem, but it 
can be effective, and it cenainly puts 
Iomega in an enviable market posi- 
tion if Ricoh ever begins delivering a 
high-rpm drive sub.sysiem. 

Spin Control 

The I^serSafe is worth considering its 
an erasable optical for several reasons. 
First, it includes well-selected and 
useful software (although a disc or- 
ganizer and a pa.ssword security' util- 
ity would be welcome additions). 
Second, the hardware cache and 
driver pul the UiscrSafe near the top 
of the speed class for erasable 
opticals. Finally, Iomega as a firm is 
likely to last longer than the drive’s 
warranty — unlike many smaller pros- 
pectors in the erasable-optical gold 
rush, Iomega has lots of successful 
products to help fund the customer 
support lines while the erasable op- 
tical market evolves. The LaserSafe 
offers a respectable value for the 
price, and it’s a solid piece of vendor 
engineering. — Charles Seiter 

See Where to Buy 0 / circle 759 on reader sorvree card. 



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Ten Children’s Books on CD ROM 



DISCIS BOOKS 

Pros: Good reproduction of illustrations 
and texts; entertaining and educational: re- 
quires no keyboard skills. Cons: None. 
Company: Discis Knowledge Research. 
Requires: Mac Plus; CD ROM player. 

List price: Complete library (10 volumes) 
S750; stories also available 
individually (see "Discis Books"). 

Discis Any parent, uncle, or 
grandma who’s had the 
pleasure and frustration of spending 
time with children knows how difficult 
it can be to instill in them an appre- 
ciation for the written word. Of course 
the earlier you hook kids on reading, 
the quicker you tap their creativity, 
thirst for knowledge, and writing skills. 
As Jean Brodie put it, “Give me a girl 
at an impressionable age and she is 
mine for life.” There aren’t many 
teachers like Miss Jean Brodie around 
these days; alas, the American land- 
scape at the end of this century isn’t 
very friendly to teachers in or out of 
their prime. Reading and the great 
pleasure it brings seems to have gone 
out of fashion too. According to the 
United States Department of Educa- 
tion, our overcrowded schools, anti- 
quated educational system, under- 
funded classrooms, and underpaid 
teachers graduate an estimated 2.2 




million new illiterate young people 
every year. Add these to the more than 
26 million adults in this country' who 
c'annot read, write, or handle numbers 
well enough to meet the literacy de- 
mands of today’s society, and you be- 
gin to think our illiteracy problem is 
Linsolvable. New methods of teaching 
and learning will certainly help, and 
these “books” are a move in the right 
direction. 

Discis books are fun, educational, 
look good in black and white (and 
sensational in color), don’t need a 
hard drive to run, and don’t require 
the user to have computer skills. Five- 
year-olds can master them easily and 
quickly . . . which, of course, is the 
idea. Loading and starting a Discis 
Book CD ROM is a snap. Turn on the 
CD ROM drive, then turn on the Mac. 
Place the CD in the caddy and insert 
the caddy into the drive. A window 
opens on the Mac showing two icons, 
one with the title of the book and 
another that reads Discis Books. 
Double-click on either icon and the 
book opens up to the title page. It 
gets even easier. All you do is click 
on a word, picture, page corner, or 
the speaker icon at the head of each 
sentence to make things happen. 
Double-click on something, almost 
anything, and after the word for what 
you’re pointing to is spoken, each 
syllable is pronounced slowly and 
clearly. Not sure what to do? A talk- 
ing cjuestion mark guides you through 
all the possibilities. 

Is It Polite to Point and Click? 

One of the drawings in Moiling Gives 
Me a Stomach Ache shows a little boy 
standing by an open packing box 
holding his stomach. Point and click 
on anything in the picture and a voice 
describes it while the word or words 
for it appear on screen until you se- 
lect another object or move the cur- 
sor to the lower-right-hand corner 
and turn the page to continue the 
story'. 

Point and click on a nearby 
dresser and the voice announces 
“bureau.” Point to the ceramic figure 
on it and click and the voice says 
“piggy bank.” When 1 clicked on a 
lower wall, the voice instructed me 
with “baseboard.” This one picture 
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DISCIS BOOKS 

Title 


Author 


Illustrator/ 

Artist 


Suggested 

Price 


Suggested 

Age 


Here's that Rainy Day 

W^iile the Di.scis Books may seem to 
Ik‘ aimed at the classroom and perhaps 
the day-care center, parents should 
welcome this program as yet another 


A Long Hard Day on the Ranch 


Audrey Nelson 




SB4.95 


6 + 


way to spend time with the kids doing 


Cinderella, the Original Fairy Tale 






$69.95 


6 + 


something you’ll both learn from and 


Heather Hits her First Home Run 


Ted Piantos 


Heather Collins 


$64.95 


6 + 


enjoy. Each disc includes a no-ques- 


Moving Gives Me a Stomach Ache 


Heather McKend 


Heather Collins 


$04.95 


6 + 


tions-asked one-year warranty. ‘‘Step 


Mud Puddle 


Robert N. Munsch 


Sami Suomalaihen 


$74.95 


6 E 


on it? That’s ok. Kids played baseball 


The Paper Bag Princess 


Robert N. Munsch 




$69.95 


6 + 


with it as second base? That’s ok. Sim- 


Scary Poems for Rotten Kids 


sean o huigin 




$64.95 


8jF 


ply send back your disc with a money 


The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 


Beatrix Potter 




$69.95 


5 + 


order for $4.50 (to cover postage and 


The Tale of Peter Rabbit 


Beatrix Potter 




$69.95 


5 + 


handling). . . . We will send you a new' 


Thomas' Snowsuit 


Robert N. Munsch 


Michael Martchenko 


$74.95 


5 + 


replacement disc.” 



contains over 30 objects that can be 
spoken, pronounced, and written. 

Reading. Writing, and Monster Munch 

The volumes can be customized in 
several ways. You can keep and recall 
lists of words, you can slow the 
reader’s voice or speed it up, and 
change font styles and sizes. 'I’here is 
even an electronic bookmark that re- 
turns you to where you left off in your 
Iasi session. 

A hard copy of the book is not 
included with the CD ROM disc, but 
each disc includes a user’s guitle and 
a valuable teacher’s guide. The 12- 
page teacher’s guide to Sccuy Poems 
for Roiten Kids includes a short essay 
entitled “Poetr\^ in a Litenuure-Based 
Classr(K)m,” a line or two about each 
of the 15 poems on the disk, instruc- 
tions on how to set up the classroom 
to maximize computer use, and an 
activity sheet with suggestions for 
things the reader/listener can do away 
from the book and the computer 
screen. Here’s a sample: 

READING 

■Read other children’s poets — 
Dennis lx,*e, Shel Silverstein, and 
Michael Rosen. 

WRITING 

■Create a ‘Things I’m Scared of” 
list. 

■Write your (wn scar>' poems to 
publish and share with your 
friends. 

COOKING 

■Make Spooky Sundaes and Mon- 
ster Munch. [The recipes are 
included. I 
MUSIC 

■Using shakers, lummi sticks. 



dried-out gourds, and other 
home-made instruments, make 
musical sound effects to accom- 
pany the poems . . . 

SCIENCE 

•Children are fascinated by spi- 
ders, worms, and snakes. Use the 
library to find out more about 
them. 

The background music for each 
l^iscis Book (foreground if you opt 
to read instead of listening to the 
reader) is melodic. It never intmdes 
on the action. A Duin beat introduces 
Heather Hits her First Home Run and 
gives way to the proper musical ten- 
sion when the heroine comes up to 
bat. In The Paper Ba^ Princess, when 
Prince Ronald, still clutching his ten- 
nis racket, is carried off by a fierce 
fire-breathing dragon, the up, up, 
and away music lends excitement to 
the moment. 

Ken Jones, who is responsible for 
all the musical cues and .sound effects 
for the series, uses the clip|)ity-clop of 
coconut shells and a sampled har- 
monica and acoustic guitar to set up 
and illustrate A Long Hard Day on the 
Ranch, 'fhe rural and barnyard sounds 
in the familiar The Tale of Peter Rab- 
bit and The Tale of Benjamin Bimny 
don’t .swamp the dialogue in order to 
make their point. 

Each of the stories on the.se ten 
discs, from Cinderella to Mud 
Puddle, is given a sophisticated, first- 
class production, with the Mac inter- 
face used to it’s best possible advan- 
tage. Kids won’t be bored easily and 
neither will parents or instructors. The 
voices — some children’s, some 
adults’ — .seem aptly cho.sen. 



The Discis Books can be pur- 
chased individually for from $69.95 to 
$84.95 and the complete libran^ of ten 
discs is $750. This might sound a bit 
steep for home use, but have you 
priced the latest .Nintendo games? And 
we needn’t dwell too long on how 
many reading skills your kids and 
mine have picked up from arcade 
games. So, if you’ve been saving up 
for thai rainy day or haven’t spent all 
of Grandma’s annual Christmas check, 
any one of these di.scs merits consid- 
crati(^n. 1 recommend them without 
reservation. My own favorites are 
Robert Muasch’s delightful tale Tho- 
mas' Snowsu it, and Sca)y Poems for 
Rotten Kids, by poet sean o huigin. 
'I’he latter is suggested for eight-year- 
olds and up, .so I qualify. — Rod McKuen 

See Where to Buy under 'Santa’s Spec Sheet.” 

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OiJtlinor and Presentation Program 



MORE 3.0 

Pros: Powerful, versatile outliner; 
allows user to control every detail of pre- 
sentation; template libraries simplify 
chart creation. Cons: Problems may arise 
when upgrading from earlier versions; 
multitude of features makes user interface 
initially confusing. Company: Symantec 
Corporation. Requires: Mac Plus; 
hard drive.List price: $395; upgrade $50. 




More 3.0 is the latest incarna- 
tit^n of the powerful package 
that’s marketed as a presen- 
tation gniphics tool but that’s capable 
of doing much — well — more. More 
3.0 contains a number of important 
new features for making state-of-the- 
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art presentations; it also includes sev- 
eral significant user-interface refine- 
ments designed to make the program 
easier to use. 

More of the Same 

More is built around an outline-style 
idea processor. Like all outliners, 
More allows you to organize ideas 
(called headlines) hierarchically and 
to rearrange them with the keyboard 
or mouse. Subheads can be attached 
to headlines so they’re visible or 
hidden, depending on the amount of 
detail you want to view. 

More’s outliner is one of the most 
powerful you’ll find. Organizational 
commands make it ea.sy to do major 
surgery' on an outline, and a variety 
of labeling options (including custom 
labels) allow control of the numbers, 
letters, and symbols that accompany 
headlines. Text editing, formatting, 
spelling checking, table of contents 
generation, and text- and graphics- 
importing features rival those of many 
word proces.S(3rs. The outliner even 
includes date and time stamps, sort 
and calculate functions, a Calendar 
command, and a phone dialer — fea- 
tures you’re more likely to find in a 
personal-informati(^n organizer than 
in a presentation package. 

Any outline in More is just a 
mouse click away from turning into a 
pre.sentation. By clicking on the bul- 
let-chart icon at the bottom of the 
outline window (or .selecting Bullet 
Chan from the Outline menu), you 
switch to a different view of your out- 
line: a series of bullet charts ready to 
be customized and displayed as a dy- 
namic on-screen presentation, trans- 
formed into a set of color slides, or 
printed as a set of transparencies with 
accom[xinying lecture notes. An out- 
line can just as easily be display^ed as a 
tree (organizational) chart, which can 
be pasted into a bullet chan for use in 
a presentation. 

To simplify the prcKe.ss of creat- 
ing consistent presentations and out- 
lines, .More allows y^ou to apply style 
rules to any level of the outline hier- 
archy. If you prefer to ignore the 
Rules menu. More automatically cre- 
ates mles whenever you make style 
changes to your outline, bullet chan, 
or tree chart. Rules, templates, and 
graphic elements can be stored in 



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ties allow you to formulate your thoughts in a 
structured fashion. By clicking on the icons at the 
lower left, you can transform your outline into a 
bullet chart or an on-screen presentation. 

menu-accessible libraries so they’re 
easy to apply to different documents. 

There's Even More 

More 3.0 adds new features to the 
outliner, including a ruler for creating 
custom tab stops, support for super- 
scripts and subscripts, a command for 
suppressing headers and footers on 
the first page of a document, and user- 
interface modifications that make it 
easy to select and reformat multiple 
headlines with the mouse. These en- 
hancements make the program more 
useful for creating text-based docu- 
ments, although the outline-based 
user interface and the lack of features 
like multicolumn printing make it a 
poor choice for most word process- 
ing jobs. 

If your work frequently involves 
the creation and modification of bul- 
let-chart presentations, you’ll appre- 
ciate More’s new llexibility. Instead of 
having to return to the outline view 
to edit and format text and labels, you 
can use the text tool to change charts 
directly. 

In general. More 3.0 gives you 



greater control over bullet charts than 
ever before. The package includes a 
wide variety of color and monochrome 
templates in libraries. The Browser 
menu allows you to quickly examine 
these templates; you c'an apply the one 
that best fits your presentation to the 
Master Page or any individual page. 

If you cannot find the perfect 
template in any of the libraries, you 
can create or customize one using 
More’s expanded set of graphics tools. 
Standard tools on the palette allow 
you to place text, lines, shapes, and 
bezier curves on charts. Others hide 
pop-up menus for controlling the 
exact placement, style, color, and 
pattern (including editable gradients) 
of text boxes, lines, frames, and 
backgrounds. 

Since there’s .so much flexibility, 
it’s easy for novices to become over- 
whelmed by choices. An innovative 
Chart Tutor command activates a 
sequence of dialog boxes that leads 
the user step-by-step through the 
basics of crcating and customizing a 
presentation. 

The most noticeable addition to 
More 3.0 is More Graph, an easy-to- 
use tool for turning arrays of numbers 
into charts and graphs. Rather than 
include this module in the More 
program, Symantec has chosen to 
make it a stand-alone program that 
resembles a spreadsheet program 
without the calculation capabilities. 
This separation of powers is surpris- 
ing, given that so many diverse 
modules are already packed into 
More, but it’s hardly noticeable 
when the two programs are run un- 
der MultiFinder. 

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Built-in Tasto 
More's built-in tem- 
plates provide an easy 
way to present graphi- 
cally pleasing presen- 
tations. Mastering the 
nearly identical row of 
rectangles in the pal- 
ette. however, takes a 
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Of course, it’s still possible to add 
text or graphics im|:)orted from other 
programs. More’s extensive set of 
translators makes it easy to import text 
or graphics from just about any appli- 
cation you’re likely to use. 

What More Could You Want? 

Unfortunately, not all of the changes 
in More 3 0 are clear improvements. 
An Installer program designed to 
make sure that all of your files end 
up in the right place may cause 
problems if you have a copy of More 
II on your hard drive. Users of 
Symantec’s CompuServ'c forum expe- 
rienced several annoying installation 
problems, including crashes and the 
replacement of More-specific icons 
with generic document icons. 

1 discovered another disturbing 
problem when I opened some of my 
More II documents with More 3.0. 
While outlines came through the file- 
translation process intact, bullet 
charts needed reformatting before 
they were presentable in the new 
program. Boxes that had framed the 
Mac screen now wandered mysteri- 
ously off the edge of the screen, and 
perfectly placed pictures were inex- 
plicably relocated. 

When I tried to correct the frame 
problem, I found my knowledge of 
More II to he less help than I’d hoped. 
More Ill’s tool palette includes a be- 
wildering collection of al most-identi- 
cal rectangular icons hiding pop-up 
menus for controlling wirious fonnats. 
Other aspects of More 3.0’s new user 
interface have been reworked too; I 
had to spend some time reading the 
manuals before 1 could approach my 
previous level of productivity with 
More. 

A Whole Lot More 

Over the years, I’ve used More to 
perform all kinds of tasks, from out- 
lining works-in-progress to producing 
polished presentations. I’ve learned to 
live with the quirks that many new 
users find annoying and confusing. 
I've come to expect that each revision 
will provide me with a more powerful 
set of tools, but not without an initial 
cost. More 3.0 may have a few prob- 
lems, but I’m not about to go back. 
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COMPUSERVE 
INFORMATION 
MANAGER 1.0 

Pros: Provides easy-to-use graphical 
front end fer CompuServe 
system. Cons: Slow; drops into ter- 
minal mode too often; buggy. 
Company: CompuServe. Requires; Mac 
Plus; second disk drive; modem. 
List price: $39.95; free to subscribers. 



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COMPUSERVE 
NAVIGATOR 3.0 

Pros: Automates and speeds use of 
CompuServe; saves time and 
money online. Cons: Buggy; not all 
areas of CompuServe are 
accessible. Company: CompuServe. 

Requires: Mac 512KE; second 
disk drive; modem. List price: $99.95. 



# CompuServ^c provides hun- 
dreds of information ser- 
vices — but at a price. Its 
A complex, difficult-to-lcarn 
<33^=- system of commands and 
Y layers upon layers of text- 
basetl menus have discouraged many 
who have tried to use it. 

CompuSeiYe Navigator and Com- 
puSei*ve Information Manager (CIM) 
arc two front-end prognims that suc- 
ceed in bringing a friendlier face to 
Com(:>uScrve. The two programs are 
complementarv' rather than competi- 
tive, Navigator being best for users 
who frequent the forums, and CIM 
working well for browsing through 
CompuSeiYe’s many other areas. 



Navigator 3.0.3 

Vastly changed since its last incarna- 
tion (see Reinews, Macworld, De- 
cember 1988), the current version of 
Navigator adds many convenience 
features and addresses many of the 
shortcomings of version 2.1. But its 
basic mission hasn’t changed: it con- 
nects to CompuServe, gets the infor- 
mation you want, stores that informa- 
tion on disk, and then disconnects to 
let you review the information while 
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charges aren’t running. Navigator is 
mainly a tool for participating in the 
forum areas, sending messages, and 
downloading and uploading files. You 
can use the program to enter other 
areas of CompuServe, but it requires 
using a manual mode or learning 
Navigator’s scripting language. 

Plan Your Session Online 

Using Navigator to access the forums 
is easy, 'fhe Navigator Database win- 
dow contains tiles for each of the fo- 
rum areas on CompuServe. Double- 
clicking on a tile opens a forum 
window with pull-down menus to 
control the action that Navigator will 
take in that forum. The Message menu 
allows you to specify which messages 
you want to get from the forum. The 
Library menu lets you scan the 
forum’s data libraries for files to 
download. 

While offline you can instruct 
Navigator to get your electronic mail 
and a listing of the current message 
topics (also called threads) and new 
files in the forums you've selected. 
Then you run a session. The progmm 
dials CompuServe, performs the tasks 
you’ve set, and disconnects. As you 
review the session offline, you’ll reply 
to your electronic-mail messages, cre- 
ate new messages, mark interesting 
message topics for retrieval, and 
choose files to be downloaded. The 
next time you run a session. Naviga- 
tor sends your replies, reads and 
stores the full texts of the message 
threads you've marked, and down- 
loads the files you want (see “.An- 
swering Back’’). 

A Pretty Face 

Where Navigator takes a batch -ori- 
ented approach to tasks, CompuScive 
(coiHhiues) 




Answering Back Navigator makes it easy to re- 
ply to forum messages. Here I'm posing my guess 
to a question asked in the Science Fiction and Fan- 
tasy Forum. 








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Please choose your package and fill out this form completely. Incomplete forms will be returned. Use one form 
per person. (Make photocopies to register additional people.) Then send the completed form(s), along with payment 
to: MACWORLD Expo, P.O. Box 4010, Dedham, MA 02026. Please do not staple check to form. 

Registration cards must be received by December 10. Cards received after December 10 will be returned. 
Purchase orders cannot be accepted. Registration fees are non-refundable. For further information call the MAC- 
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December 28. (Be sure to check box indicating where badge should be sent.) All other badges will be held at the 
Non-U.S. Preregistration Counter at Moscone Center for pick up beginning Thursday, January 10. 

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All registration fees to MACWORLD Expo/San Francisco include a six month, S7.50 paid subscription to 
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□ Package One $65 

Conference sessions* and exhibits 
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□ Package Two $15 

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($25 cash only at the door) 



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03 □ Di.stributor/dealcr/rctailer/.scrvice 


15 □ DP/MIS manager 


27 □ Macintosh SE 


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05 □ Busine.ss services 


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29 □ Apple II Scries 


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1 8 □ Doctor/lawyer/dentist 


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07 □ Health services 


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you'll pick up all the latest 
Macintosh news — and dis- 
cover new ways to put your 
Mac to work — in the office, 
in the lab, in the studio, in the 
classroom, or in your home. 



With over 500 exhibiting 
companies, there’s some- 
thing for everyone. 



Whether you're interested in 
networking, spreadsheet analy- 
sis, databases, multimedia, 
education, accounting, law, 
engineering, forecasting, 
design, publishing, illustration, 
animation, music, program- 
ming, or fun and games, you'll 
fmd^it at MACWORLD Expo/ 
San Francisco. 

Tlie Mac keeps getting more 
and more exciting, with iin 
ever-increasing array of appli- 
cations! So we've expanded 
the conference program to re- 
llect the exciting new areas 
where Mac is making inroads, 
and to keep you up-to-date on 
topics you always request. 

Here's a quick look at what 
you can expect in San Fran- 
cisco next Januar>': 

State-of-fhe-Ar( Show-Start- 
ers — spend Thursday attend- 
ing your choice of 12 dazzling 
State-of-thc-Arl Sessions, each 
designed to provide you with 
an authoritative overview' of 
the latest and greatest develop- 
ments in each conference track 
(and a few surprise areas) — 
plus give you a taste of what 
the future might hold. 

Keynote Sessions — begin 
Friday and Saturday with a 
fever-pitch of excitement at the 
MACWORLD Expo Keynote 
Sessions, featuring luminaries 
from the world of Macintosh, 
insights from industry leaders, 
and a classic example of just 
how much fun the Mac can be! 

Nine Conference Tracks — 
following the Keynote Ses- 
sions you can choose from 
.sessions in nine different topic 



areas. You'll hear: tips and 
tricks from users; developing 
trends from indu.str>’ insiders: 
w'hat’s new and exciting in 
dozens of application areas; 
how' to avoid pitfalls into which 
the unwar>' have stumbled; 
reviews on the latest software 
and hardw'arc products; plus 
powerhouse pointers, lime- 
.saving ideas, terrific insider's 
lips, and much, much more! 

Application W^orkshops — 
beef up your Mac know'ledge 
on Sunday wdih a series of 
two-hour intensive learning 
.sc.ssions to provide guidelines, 
lips, and how-to’s on the most 
popular u.scs of the Macintosh. 
Here's more about the Nine 
Conference Tracks: 

1. The Multimedia .Mac — 
sessions to dazzle and demon- 
strate the fabulously exciting 
integration of video, sound, 
and animation by the Macin- 
tosh — and how multimedia 
can benefit you. 

2. De.sigiier Solutions — 
sessions for architects, graphic 
arti.sis, engineers, advertising 
agencies, and more, to maxi- 
mize the usefulne.ss of the 
Macintosh in design and 
conquer new' w'orlds in color. 

3. The Mac in Entertainment 

— one of the most exciting 
new' application areas for the 
Mac, featuring sessions rang- 
ing from Desktop Video to the 
Mac in Hollywood. 

4. User Workshops — intro- 
ductory', for those just getting 
started with the Mac, or who 
need a quick, concentrated 
lesson on the most popular 
Mac applications; Advanced, 
where experienced users .share 
their expertise to reveal hot 
new ideas and insider's tricks; 
and Software Review Sc.ssions, 
for authoritative, unbiased 
over\’iew's of the be.st-selling 
Macintosh software packages. 

5. The Mac in Big Business 

— solid advice and ca.se 
studies to help solve the unique 



problems of users in large 
organizations, along with 
di.scussions of the possible 
impact of developing trends 
and technologies in the Mac 
marketplace. 

6. Programmer/Developer 
Forums — where veteran and 
novice techies gather to brain- 
storm, learn about innovative 
advances and techniques, and 
more. 

7. Special Interest Group 
.Meetings — .sessions to .serve 
the needs of users in a broad 
range of settings who arc con- 
tinually .seeking new w'ays to 
prosper and profit from the 
Mac. Includes: Education 
Workshops — a golden oppor- 
tunity for teachers and admin- 
istrators from kindergarten 
through graduate .school to 
learn how their colleagues 
across the country are using 
ihe Mac to great advantage; 
Home Office/Small Business 
Sur\'ival Guide — re.sources, 
recommendations, and how'- 
to’s especially useful to the 
Macintosh home office work- 
er; plus se.ssions to highlight 
The .Mac in Health Care and 
Tlie Mac in the Law Office. 

8. The Lighter Side — as well 
as being a business/educalion 
tool without equal, the Mac 
was designed to be fun! This 
track features sessions to keep 
a smile on your face and on 
your Macinlo.slTs screen. 

9. Late-Breaking/Popular 
Demand Topics — to keep 
our conference program (and 
you!) up-to-the-minute, we'll 
lop off the agenda with ses- 
sions to reflect both special 
requests and the newe.st market 
developments. Included here 
will be die ever-popular MAC- 
WORLD Expo User Group 
Extravaganza (MUSE), the 
indi.spuiably reliable .source for 
users to slKu*e infonnalion, 
compare tips and strategies, 
discuss their concerns and 
problems, and get hard-hitting 
answers to questions. 




airfare. 



Show attendees can also save 
on airfare and hotels. Save 
from 5% to 45% by flying to 
San Francisco on American. To 
make your airline re.servations, 
simply call 8(X)-433- 1 790 and 
a.sk for Star File S-01 1 1 AL. 
You'll automatically receive 
your discount. 

And be sure to book your 
accommodations directly with 
the participating hotels li.sted 
on the front side of the registra- 
tion card bound into this ad. 

Register bv December 10 and 
Save $10 .‘$15! 

Save $15 on a full registra- 
tion, including all Conference 
Sessions and Exhibits, by regis- 
tering before December 10. 

($65 in advance, $80 at the 
door.) Or preregisler for Exhib- 
its only and save $10. ($15 in 
advance, $25 at the door.) 

Preregistration not only 
saves you money, but time as 
well. We’ll send you your 
plastic admission badge early 
so you can walk right into 
M.\CW()RLD Expo! The 
plastic badge registration 
system will be used on site 
and may cause registration 
lines at the show to be very 
long. So avoid the long line 
hassle, preregister and save. 

To preregister for MAC- 
WORLD Expo/San Francisco, 
simply complete the attached 
form and send it in with your 
payment (by check or credit 
card.) For more infonnalion 
call the .MACWORLD Expo 
Hotline at 617-361-3941. 

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fiisl-Ncrvctl basis with no guaranteed scaling. 

.VIACWORLD Expo is snuasored by MAC- 
WORLD. the Mufiazine. an llXi 

Communicaiionx publication. .MACWORLD 
Exposition is an independent trade show pro- 
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Milch Hall A.ssociates and not afTiiialcd with 
Apple Computer. Inc. MAC and MACINTOSH 
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Information Manager is for browsing 
through the different areas on 
CompLiScrv^e. The General Services 
window shows 12 icons tliat represent 
the major groups of semces. Clicking 
on one of these icons connects you to 
CompuServ^e and opens another win- 
dow listing the services that make up 
the group (see “CIM Desktop”). 
Double-clicking on the name of a 
service takes you to it. If the senice 
uses the Host-Micro-Interface (HMI) 
protocol, necessary^ to display infor- 
mation graphically, you’ll be taken to 
a window with the information you 
want. If the service doesn’t yet sup- 
port the HMI protocol (and many 
don’t), a Terminal Emulation window 
will open, which requires selecting 
from on-screen menus and entering 
keyboard commands. A serious defi- 
ciency’ in this mode is the absence of 
a feature for capturing information to 
a disk file. There is a capture buffer 
that you can select and copy from, but 
it is limited in size and doesn’t warn 
you when it’s full. If you’re paying for 
the data you download, CIM’s missing 
feature could cost you a lot of money. 

Unlike Navigator, CIM can access 
the entire range of services on 
CompuServe. It provides good, easy- 
to-use access to the E-mail and 
weather sections. The CB Simulator, 
where people chat night and day, Is 
terrific, allowing you to monitor sev- 
eral channels of talk while participat- 
ing in another. CIM also has an excel- 
lent interface to the message and 
library sections in forums, actually 
making those areas easy to under- 
stand and use. Although (werall I pre- 
fer Navigator’s batch ap[:>roach to fo- 
rum messaging, CIM would be better 
for the beginner. 

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good, explaining not only the pro- 
gram but also how to use many of the 
information scmces that CompuServe 
provides. Browsing through the 
manual. I’ve learned about several ar- 
eas that I didn’t know existed. 

Calling All Exterminators 

Using Navigator or CIM can be an ex- 
ercise in frustration, because both 
programs are plagued by serious 
bugs. Navigator users have burned up 
the phone lines with complaints of 
crashes and freezes. Over the months 
that 1 used Navigator, I experienced 
several bombs, some of which hung 
me online, costing me extra money. 
Many CIM users have reported 
crashes of their own and have voiced 
com(:>laints about the program’s slow 
speed. CompuServ'e has been con- 
cerned and responsive to the prob- 
lems, and both programs have had 
maintenance upgrades since the initial 
release. Updates to both programs are 
promised by the lime you read this, 
and bug fixes may be downloaded for 
free from CompuServ'e. 

Navigating or Managing? 

Which program should you buy to 
best use CompuServe? Perhaps both. 
If you’re new to CompuSeiwe, or if 
you want to buy only one program, 
then CIM is your best bet. It accesses 
the entire service easily, and its 
browsing capabilities are more Mac- 
like. More experienced CompuServ-e 
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ALLSHARE 1.1 

Pros: Processor priority can be set for ei- 
ther server or owner; size can be 
changed to accommodate more than four 
users. Cons: Access privileges apply 
to all attached disks. Company: Every- 
ware. Requires: Mac Plus; hard 
drive; AppleTalk network; System 6.0.2. 
List price: $249. 



EASYSHARE 1.1 

Pros: Publishes up to ten folders or 
disks at one time. Cons: No pri- 
ority setting for server or owner; no 
size setting for additional 
users. Company: ShirtPocket 
Software. Requires: Mac SE; hard 
drive; AppleTalk network. 

List price: Version l.1e $149. 



PERSONAL SERVER 
NETWORK 2.0 

Pros: Owner of server can be required 
to log on for added security. Cons: Prob- 
lematic installation program; non- 
intuitive interface. Company: Informa- 
tion Presentation Technologies. 
Requires: Mac SE; hard drive; AppleTalk 
network. Ust price: $149. 



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A network that doesn’t re- 
‘ quire a dedicated computer 
to be the file server can be 
more convenient and less 
expensive to set up than one 
that requires a dedicated 
server. Although Sitka (for- 
merly TOPS) made this type 
of network popular for small 
workgroups of between 6 and 12 us- 
ers, it now has strong competition 
from allShare, EasyShare, and Personal 
Server Network (PSN). 

xAll three products are designed to 
run in the background, providing file 
service to other users on the network 
while you use the Mac for regular 
programs. Each serv^er is accessible 
with the AppleShare client software, 
which now ships with Apple’s system 
software. (TOPS can’t use the 
AppleShare client software; it requires 
its own desk accessor}^ to access file 
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servei's.) allShare, EasyShare, and PSN 
differ in their setup and their access 
privileges. 

allShare 

allShare’s cdev has options for creat- 
ing a log-on password, controlling 
access, and telling the processor to 
give priority to the server or the 
owner. You can restrict access to an 
entire disk, an entire disk except for 
one folder, or only one folder. 

allShare’s initial setup is for four 
users. If you want to support more 
than four concurrent users, Even^Ware 
recommends increasing the memory' 
allocated to the ser\'er by 5K for each 
additional concurrent user or allocat- 
ing more of the Mac’s processing time 
to the serv'er by sliding the priority 
indicator toward the ser\'er end. 

When 1 tninsferred files I noted 
very' little time difference between the 
owner and seiwer priority settings. Af- 
ter a discussion with the developers, 
it’s apparent to me that seiwer prior- 
ity makes little difference for file 
transfers between a single client and 
the seiver. The server-priority setting 
does make a difference when several 
users are simultaneously accessing a 
multiuser database, for example. 

Access to the disks or folders 
published by allShare is via the 
AppleShare client software. However, 
allShare’s access restrictions apply to 
all disks (except floppies) that are 
currently attached to the server 
Macintosh. That means users can ac- 
cess any mounted disk if you provide 
unrestricted access. 

EasyShare 

EasyShare offers the same functional- 
ity' that allShare does. EasyShare is an 
AppleShare-compatible server that 
runs in the background. However, 
some of its features differ significantly 
from those found in allShare. 

First, EasyShare lets you define a 
list of up to 20 folders that can be 
shared. Defining the folders, however, 
doesn’t automatically make them 
shared folders — it simply creates a list 
of folders that can be published by the 
owner of the seiv'er. You can publish 
only ten folders or volumes from the 
list at any one time. You define and 
publish the list using EasyShare ’s DA. 

Second, EasyShare does not allow 



you to allocate more of the proces- 
sor’s resources to either the owner or 
the server. It has one set size (around 
53K), and that size can’t be changed 
to accommodate more users. 

Personal Server Network 

PSN supports the entire range of 
AppleShare access privileges for fold- 
ers — Read File, Write File, Delete File, 
and See Folders (neither allShare nor 
EasyShare support till of these privi- 
leges). In addition, PSN has a Limited 
Access, or Loopback, mode that pre- 
vents anyone from accessing the Mac 




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ones with checkmarks before their names have 
been published for use by other users on the 
network. 




PSN A server administrator can name the server 
and select volumes to be published at start-up. 
Note the Limited and Unlimited buttons for Access 
Rights — that's the Loopback mode. 



unless the owner is logged on. 

By using the Limited Access, or 
Loopback, mode, you can use two 
Macs to test a multiuser database. 
When using Loopback, you can install 
the database on the background 
server. Two users can then log on to 
their Macs as users of the database. 
The 4th Dimension consultants I’ve 
spoken to find this a useful feature. 

Because PSN is an application 
rather than an INIT, it must be the 
start-up application if you want fold- 
ers or disks to be automatically made 
available to usei*s. PSN must start up 
under the Finder rather than Multi- 
Finder. The program does include an 
option to launch MultiFinder once PSN 
is started, but I find this atypical 
method a bit awkward. 

There are other eciually nonin- 
tuitive aspects to PSN’s interface. 
Although PSN uses the standard 
SFGetFile list to display folders, you 
can’t just select a folder to assign ac- 
cess privileges. You must first open 
the folder, And then assign the privi- 
leges. If you assign privileges to a se- 
lected folder at the desktop level, in 
actuality you’re assigning privileges for 
the entire disk. 

PSN’s installation program can 
cause considenible problems. As with 
all background servers, PSN requires 
additional system heap to load. How- 
ever, if you use PSN’s preset heap size 
for the Mac and the server, you can 
actually end up with a smaller heap 
after you mn the Installer particularly 
if you have increased the system heap 
to accommodate a few INITs before 
installing PSN. Instead of the preset 
values, you can enter a larger heap 
size when you run PSN Install. 

Picking a Server 

Both allShare and EasyShare are win- 
ners as AppleShare-compliant servers. 
allShare’s advantages (wer EasyShare 
and PSN are its ability to set the pro- 
cessing priority and its flexibility when 
setting I^M requirements according 
to the number of users. However, if 
you’re looking for greater security for 
more than one folder or disk, 
EasyShare is the best choice. Because 
of the problems 1 had installing PSN, 1 
can’t recommend it. — Dave Kosiur 

See Whero to Buy or circle 708 {eltShare), 734 (Easy- 
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everything from 
creative im^eption to 
color separations for 
print. Even export to 
video graphics, pre-press, paintbox or 
animation systems. 

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type. Color it. Blend it. Rotate it. 
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Precision Drawing Program 



MACDRAFT 2.0 

Pros: Easy to learn; plotter drivers and 
symbol libraries available; clean 
interface. Cons: Some conveniences 
missing. Company: innovative 
Data Design. Requires: Mac Plus; 
second disk drive. 2MB RAM. hard drive 
recommended. List price: S299. 

MacDraft 2.0 is a major ex- 
tension of the original, a 
program first released in 
1985 and a popular competitor of 
MacDraw II and Canvas. Although 
MacDraft can he used for CAD-like 
tasks — it serves, for example, for ba- 
sic architectural drawing or mechani- 
cal design — it omits many of the fa- 
cilities that Innovative Data Design 
(IDD) put into Dreams, its principal 
C/VD offering. The company’s aim in 
MacDraft was to bring precision 
drawing to people who have an occa- 
sional rather than eveiyday need for 
such a program; as such the program 
has been successful with legions of 
occasional drafters and also, surpris- 
ingly, with business users, who use it 
as an alternative method for creating 
presentations. MacDraft needed an 
update to compete with newer stan- 
dards in drawing programs, but the 
good news is that IDD w'as able to in- 
troduce new features without making 
the program harder to learn. (See 
“Insights on MacDraft 2.0” in this is- 
sue for more information.) 

Easy Virtue 

The problem facing a developer of 
drawing programs is to find a way to 
arrange all the possibilities without 
bewildering the new u.ser with a vari- 
ety of drawing options and tools. In 
MacDraft, the drawing palette has a 
simple, assortment of icons, but more- 
sophisticated drawing tools appear 
when the user holds the mouse but- 
ton down on an icon choice (see 
“Optional Power”). 

The advantage of this arrange- 
ment is that, first, the program is at 
least usable for simple drawings by 
absolute neophytes, and second, it 
allows IDD to add new features w'hile 
keeping a clean user interface. Under 



the freehand drawing icon, for ex- 
ample, are bezier curv^es and splines, 
tw'o features new to MacDraft 2.0. As 
a beginner, you can do freehand line 
doodles as you might in any other 
Macintosh paint or draw program; for 
more advanced use, you can dip into 
the completely rewritten manual 
(more thorough than the already im- 
pressive original) or comprehensive 
online help and find out exactly what 
splines arc and how to use them. Pull- 
out icons also support common 
drawing options. MacDraft 2.0 thus 
extends the ease-of-use of the origi- 
nal program to features that were for- 
merly the domain of high-end CAD. 

Filling It In 

Besides a new arrangement of fill pat- 
terns that allows custom fill patterns 
(black-and-white and color), the new 
MacDraft supports the full 24-bit color 
standard. MacDraft now supports 
standard symbol libraries (two sets of 
general graphics and a special archi- 
tectural libraiy) and offers, aside from 
the expected PICT2, a proprietary 
drawing-storage formal called Pict- 
Script. PictScript is basically a version 
of encapsulated PostScript that lets 
you manipulate images (crop and 
resize) on screen; you can also paste 
drawings into word processor files 
and retain PostScript-like printing with 
smooth curves and quality laser- 
printed grays. Text handling now sup- 
pons the fijll set of Mac text attributes, 
and you can customize line styles (in- 
cluding dimensioning lines. 

More significant than these im- 
provements is a provision for layering, 
a virtual necessity in a serious drawing 
program. You can jumji rapidly from 
one layer to another, even on a Mac 
Plus, copying elements from prepared 



reference layers of your own custom 
symbols if you like. 

Blank Spaces 

ViTiile it’s nearly the ideal program for 
the casually precise or the precisely 
casual, it’s not a program for tho.se 
whose normal employment situation 
calls for an ankle chain connected to 
the leg of a drafting table. MacDraft ’s 
dimensioning, for example, is impres- 
sively simple, but it doesn’t offer the 
across-layer flexibility of dimensioning 
in IDD’s own Dreams or Graphsoft’s 
MiniCad + . Similarly, although the 
program’s drawing elements are ob- 
jects, the object-manipulation facilities 
(add, subtract, glue) aren't as complete 
as a CAD program’s. While PictScript 
is lovely, a serious CAD program 
should have translators for DXF and 
other standard formats. Thus, if your 
job consists of designing 300 kinds of 
metal parts cranked out from a nu- 
merically controlled milling machine, 
buy something else; if you need to do 
precision drawings for business or sci- 
entific presentations, or even prepare 
preliminaiy drawings for an injection- 
molded plastic part a few times a year, 
MacDraft is superb. 

Bottom Line 

If on a Friday afternoon you are as- 
signed to produce your first technical 
drawing by Monday morning, you can’t 
find a better program than MacDraft 
2.0. Optional plotter support ($129) 
and symbol libraries ($39 to $99) make 
the program even more attractive. It 
is quite deliberately not a universal 
drafting solution, but it’s an effective 
solution to a wide range of beginning 
to advanced drawing problems. 

— Charles Seiter 

See Where to Buy or circle 770 on reader service card. 

Optional Power 
The shadowed icons 
in the MacDraft 2.0 
drawing palette pull 
out sideways, reveal- 
ing more options. The 
freehand drawing 
modes shown here are 
freehand lines, closed 
shapes, bezier curves, 
and spline curves. 




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Writer’s Reference 



INSIDE 

INFORMATION 1.0 

Pros: Easy to use; extensive database of 
defined terms; good idea generator; 
vocabulary builder. Cons: Needs a lot of 
space on hard drive; cumbersome, 
nonalphabetized word groupings; some- 
times makes bizarre associations. 
Company: Microiytics. Requires: Mac Plus; 

System 6.0; hard drive with 700K 
available for minimum installation or 3.5MB 
for full installation. Ust price: S1 19. 

Microiytics calls its Inside 
Information DA “the first 

^ new classification system for 

language in nearly 150 years.” 1 call it 
an antidote to writer’s block. 

The program is an interesting hy- 
brid: part idea generator, part thesau- 
rus, and part dictionarv- — sort of. VCIiat 
it really is, is a loosely stirictured laby- 
rinth of words and meanings. You 
might just as easily find a gem as get 
lost, quite literally, in information. But 
if getting lost is part of the problem, 
it’s also part of the program’s appeal. 

Inside Information is a collection 
of more than 65,000 terms, briefly de- 
fined, whose subject matter ranges 
from the mundane to the esoteric. The 
terms relate to ever>ihing from math- 
ematics and medicine to social inter- 
actions (including insults), the arts, 
linguistics, and even slang. 

The program is divided into seven 
general classes; Nature, Science & 
Technology, Domestic Life, Institu- 
tions, Arts & Entertainment, Language, 
and the Human Condition. These 
classes are further divided into 20 
subclasses and 125 categories, which 
are broken down yet again into 700 
subcategories, each defined by subject 
matter (see "The Graphic View”). 

Reverse Dictionary 

Inside Information is a desk accessory’ 
with a pivotal feature called the Re- 
verse Dictionaiy. You enter a brief 
description or ke>'word, and the pro- 
gram comes up with a list of words 
that most closely relate to the de- 
scription you specified. Select any 
word from the list, and you’re given a 
brief definition of the word. Or if you 



want to see the hierarchical stmcture 
of where the word fits in the program, 
you can choose one of three view 
options — Outline, Graphic, or Tree. 

If I’m writing an article on ships, 
for example, and want to make sure I 
haven’t left anything out, 1 could use 
the Reverse Dictionary' to key in the 
word ship. The program comes back 
with a list of 181 words related to sea- 
faring boats, including: head wind, 
bunker, Long Tom, watch, whale}', 
and barrmcle. This list of nautical 
terms gives me the inspiration boost I 
need, and I’m happy. 

But not so fast. In another case, 
let’s say I’m writing a medical paper 
and have momentarily forgotten the 
w'ord glaucofna. This time I type the 
w'ords eye disease. The program 
searches and comes back with five in- 
teresting matches but not the exact 
match I had in mind. It lists the terms 
multiple sclerosis, ainblyopia, jaun- 
dice, ophthal)i\ology and ophtbal- 
fnologist. Glauco}na is not on the list. 
On the other hand, typing in the w'ord 
ey^e brings up a list (albeit not alpha- 
betical) of 154 entries, including 
glaucoma. This list includes every'- 
thing from blhikers to bony orbit. 

Because the Reverse Dictionary’ 
uses a key'word search without regard 
for context, the program sometimes 
comes up with just the right associa- 
tions and sometimes with connections 
that are surprising — even downright 
bizarre. In the ey^e example, the list that 
included glaucoma has every' word in 
the 60,000-word dictionary that con- 
tains the woi’d eye in its definition. 
That could include mole, a mammal 
known for its poor eyesight. 

Inside Information defies the di- 
rect approach. If you can put up with 
its idiosyncratic twists and turns and 
don’t mind its seemingly haphazard 
groupings of words, you might enjoy 
browsing as a way to build your vo- 
cabulary'. Better yet, you may find it 
an e.xcellent tool to help generate 
ideas while writing an article or story. 

If you want to meander off to ex- 
plore a w'oi‘d, you can save your place 
by using Inside Information’s Save 
Bookmark command. This saves a 
record of your location from any- 
where in the program, even after a 
system shutdown. You can use up to 
30 bookmarks at a time. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 




The Graphic View You can use a graphic, tree, or 
outline view to trace any of the words back through 
the program's hierarchical structure. This example 
shows the nested categories in which the words 
harness cask fit. and traces them back to the gen- 
eral class of Science 8 Technology. 

Inside Information is a DA, but its 
sheer size (it takes a whopping 3.5MB 
to run the full version) can be daunt- 
ing. If you have really limited hard 
drive space, the program can be run 
without Reverse Dictionary or defini- 
tions, but there wouldn’t be much 
point without these key features. 

The program contains some ex- 
plicit material, which you can delete if 
you find it offensive. 

Floorshows, Hendiadys, and Syzygy 

While the interface is easy to use, at 
first I found the occasionally strange 
or irrelevant connections made by the 
Reverse Dictionary bothersome. 
Floorshows, he}\diadys, and 
for example, are all on the list when 1 
type the w'ord conjimction. Typing 
the word alimony produces even 
more startling results. Its list of three 
consists of aliniony, alUnony, and 
alwiony. When selected, each in- 
stance of the word displays a slightly 
different definition. Annoying redun- 
dancy or information junkie’s dream? 

Inside Information’s search times 
are not a serious problem, but the 
program could u.se a boost in speed. 
Currently it takes nearly a minute to 
do a Reverse Dictionary search on 181 
records using a fairly loaded Mac SE 
with 2.5MB RAM and a 20MB hard 
drive. 

Microlyiics plans to release a ver- 
sion soon that runs faster and uses 
less disk space — significantly less, I 
hope. The company also plans to in- 
clude the next version in its InfoDesk 
series of reference works, and Random 
House is currently planning a book 
version of the program. 

It’s hard to fight the exhilaration 
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REVIEWS 



of discovery, and when it comes down 
to it, that’s what Inside Information is 
about. Each time I used the program, 
I learned a few new words, and fre- 
quently a new idea or two. Despite the 
program’s overwhelming size and 
cumbersome approach, I found it not 
only useful but at times fascinating. 

At SI 19, Inside Information is a 
little more expensive than a good dic- 
tionar}^ Most wTiters won’t regret the 
investment, because after all, what In- 
side Information does best is offer an 
alternative to the blank page. 

— Mary Margaret Lewis. 

See Whore to Buy or circle 752 on reader service card. 

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Bulletin Board Software 



TELEFINDER GROUP 
EDITION 2.0 

Pros: Easy to use and install: Finder- 
like interface; high-speed data 
transfers supported. Cons: No online 
help or file-search utility. Requires: For 
host. Mac Plus; hard drive; 
Hayes-compatible modem. For user, 
Mac 5i2KE; Hayes-compatible modem. 

Company: Spider Island Software. 

List price: 20 users S375; 80 users $575; 

250 users S1250; site licenses 
available. Upgrade from version 1.0 free. 

Your desktop computer can 
be a gateway to the world of 
online services. You can now 
find the best flight to the next Mac- 
world Expo, download that game you 
just read about, or “talk” with a friend 
across town, all with your computer 
and an online service. From giants like 
CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy to 
small bulletin board systems (BBS’s), 
the benefits of telecommunications 
are now available to anyone with a 
computer and a modem. Users, how- 
ever, are often intimidated by the 
thought of setting up a BBS. 

First, there are all the settings: 
speed, protocols, the commands the 
service requires; and layered on top 
of those your own telecommunica- 
tions application. Most services, hav- 
ing started in the DOS world, require 
users to type at a prompt. Fortunately, 
the new online services are more icon 
driven — notably, America On Line and 
Connect. 



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TcleFinder is the first commercial 
BBS system with a graphical user in- 
terface. Other BBS packages such as 
Second Sight (formerly Red Ryder 
Host) from FreeSoft, WIV Mac BBS 
(shareware), and IstBBS from 1st 
Desk Systems mn from command-line 
prompts. TeleFinder, however, mim- 
ics the Macintosh; it’s like using the 
Finder. It’s all intuitive, and I found it 
easy to operate. To download and 
copy a file, just drag it; to open a 
document, double-click on its icon. 
Just as you would expect. 

The Perfect Marriage 

TeleFinder consists of the Group Edi- 
tion Host program, the TF/User joro- 
gram, and some utilities. The Group 
Edition I lost runs the BBS, while the 
TF/User is distributed to all BBS users. 
This union of host ser\Mce and client 
software j^roduces a seamless product 
that is easy to understand. It’s some- 
thing many users and sysops have 
wanted for some time. 

The TF/User software isn’t a gen- 
eral-purpose telecommunications 
package. It’s meant to be linked with 
the Grou(:) Edition Host BBS. If you tiy 
to use a standard telecommunications 
package to log on to TeleFinder, the 
host provides a simple command-line 
prompt for standard terminal emula- 
tion. Spider Island offers a separate 




TeleFinder's Desktop TeleFinder uses icons for 
files, folders, and directories. 




Onlino Conferences This screen shows the struc- 
ture of an online conference. You double-click on a 
document to enter the conference. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 




product called TeleFinder Personal 
Edition for commercial ser\dces. 

TeleFinder supports up to six 
phone lines, and up to 57,600 bits per 
second. One user commented on 
TeleFinder’s exceptional data-transfer 
rates using the new 9600-bps modems. 
TeleFinder uses a name-password 
combination (entered in a dialog box) 
and also supports callbacks for in- 
creased security. Each user is tracked 
by a unique identification number al- 
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Setting up the BBS with Group 
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Calendar and Appointment DAs 



ALARMING EVENTS 1.0 

Pros: Supports keyboard equivalents 
for launching: includes archiving of old 
reminders; outputs reminders for 
use with CalendarMaker. Cons: Recurring 
reminders are not highlighted in 
calendar; reminders with a duration of 
more than one day are displayed only 
on first day; no built-in support for launch- 
ing macros; each reminder limited to 
maximum of 255 characters. Company: CE 
Software. Requires: Mac Plus; 
System 6.0.2. List price: $129.95. 



SMART ALARMS 3.0 
WITH APPOINTMENT 
DIARY 3.1 

Pros: Can be used to launch macros; 
different sounds available for different re- 
minders; can be configured not to 
interrupt certain applications; user can de- 
fine special layouts for diary; includes 
search facility for finding text; outputs re- 
minders for use with Cambridge Z88 
portable computer. Cons: Two separate 
DAs; can turn off reminders for no 
more than three hours; each re- 
minder limited to maximum of 200 char- 
acters; no keyboard equivalents for 
launching DAs. Company; Jam Software. 
Requires: Mac Plus. List price: $125. 







If you’re looking for a way to 
organize your life and feed 
your calendar into your Mac, 
two new programs, Alarming 
Events and Smart Alarms 
with Appointment Diary, go 
a long way in providing you with the 
power to do just that. 

Both are desk accessories that al- 
low you to enter appointments into a 
calendar file and set reminders based 
on those appointments. The major 
difference between the progiTims is 
that Marming Events is a single DA, 
while Sman Alarms with Appointment 
Diary is a pair. Smart Alarms handles 
the setting of reminders and the noti- 
fication chores, and Appointment Di- 
ar>' is the calendar DA. 



Getting Scheduled 

Both packages pre.sent you with a view 
of the current month as the starting 



point. Clicking on the desii*ed date 
opens up an area for entering the text 
of your r*eminder. Then, if you wish, 
you can leave the text as a to-do item 
for that day, or assign a time to the 
text and make it a reminder. 

Appointment Diary* is only a cal- 
endar DA; it doesn’t actually cr*eate 
r-eminder's. To create a r*eminder you 
select the text you want to be r*e- 
minded of and type §^-R; this 
launches Smart Alar*ms and transfers 
your selected text to it, cr-eating a new 
reminder. You then set the date and 
time for the r-eminder. You can even 
have Smart Alarms cr*eate multiple 
reminder's, one for each line of the 
selected text. 

Alarming Events arranges your 
reminder's chr'onologically. Appoint- 
ment Diary lets you enter and display . 
text in a fr*ee-for*m manner or define 
your own layout. You might use the 
latter option to create an hourly lay- 
out for appointments during your 
work day, for example. 

The two packages also allow you 
to set recurring appointments, such 
as “tennis every third Tluirsday of the 
month.” Alarming Events, though, 
doesn’t display those reminders as 
bold dates in the monthly or yearly 
views. And if you assign a duration for 
any appointment that is more than 
one day (your vacation, say), Alarm- 
ing Events doesn’t display that ap- 
pointment on subsequent days. 

Getting an Overview 

Both DAs allow you to view your 
schedule on a daily or a weekly basis. 
Alarming Events displays any five 
consecutive days of your choosing, 
while Appointment Diar>' shows you 
the seven days of the week, Sunday 
thr'ough Satur'day. Both programs 
display a monthly view; with Alarm- 
ing Events you can also choose a 
yearly view. Appointment Diary at- 
tempts to include i^art of the text in 
the monthly view, but 1 haven’t found 
that to be very useful — it only wor'ks 
with small reminders. 

This Is Your Wake-Up Call 

You can direct Alarming Events to 
present a r eminder in one of four dif- 
ferent ways: a pop-up alarm, a Hash- 
ing alarm, a timed event, or a to-do 
event. Only the first two include some 




Alarming Events This composite screen shot in- 
cludes Alarming Events' basic data entry/display 
window (called the event window), along with a 
typical reminder window (lower window). Alarming 
Events uses a smaller window (without the tree) 
for Mac SE-size monitors. The icons to the right of 
the alarm clock in the reminder window represent 
the following actions (left to right): check event as 
done, postpone event, open event window (for edit- 
ing purposes), archive event, and trash (delete) 
event. A pop-up menu explaining the different icons 
is generated by clicking on the question mark icon. 








Smart Alarms This composite includes the calen- 
dar window from Appointment Diary along with a 
reminder entry box from Smart Alarms. The calen- 
dar window's schedule of times (1 1:30 am, 12:30 



pm, 4:00 pm, 7:30 pm) can be selected as a layout 



for future dates before any entries are made. 



type of notification. The pop-up alarm 
will display your reminder in a dialog 
box, regardless of the prognim you’re 
in, and optionally play a selected beep 
sound. The flashing alarm sounds a 
selected beep and flashes the Alarm- 
ing Events icon atop the Apple icon 
of your DA menu. 

Timed events in Alarming Events 
don’t include an active notification 
but show up in the list of events for 
that day in the calendar. To-do evenus 
are treated essentially the same way, 
except that they include only a date, 
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ntn a time, and arc carried fonvard 
from day to day until they’re marked 
as done; old to-do’s are displayed 
with the added text “nn days old,” so 
you can see just how far behind you 
really are. 

Smart Alarms has only one notifi- 
cation style, a pop-up dialog box 
(called a Nag) that can be accompa- 
nied l)y the sound of your choosing. 
The Nag box includes the text of your 
reminder ;us well as information about 
how long you’ve delayed acting on it. 

Taking It With You 

Hardly anyone spends all of his or her 
time in front of a Mac, even if it’s a 
Mac Portable. There are times when 
you’ll want to take a ()aper copy of 
your schedule with you, and both 
packages let you print selected infor- 
mation in a usable fonnat. 

Alarming Events lets you select 
which types of events will be printed: 
pop-u[) alarms, flashing alarms, timed 
events, lo-do’s, or events marked as 
done. You can choose from four time 
periods — today, this week, this 
month, anti this year — or you can se- 
lect a date range. 

Appointment Diar>' lets you select 
a range of days (starting with the 
current date), weeks, or months. If 
you’ve created a special layout for the 
calendar but there are no entries for 
some days, those days can be skipped 
in the printout. You can also export 
reminders to the Cambridge Z88 
portable computer, which can be 
pretty handy for road trips. 

Keeping Time 

I’ve found that both programs do an 
adequate job of reminding me when 
tasks should be done. If you use a lot 
of reminders. I’d recommend Smart 
Alarms, since you don’t have to clut- 
ter your calendar with them. Smart 
Alarms also makes it easier to find a 
reminder, since it pre.sents a scroll- 
ing list of all remintlers, sorted by date 
and time. The search option in Ap- 
pointment Diar\' is also helpful. 1 use 
it to find out when I’ve called or vis- 
ited a particular person. 

Alarming Events provides a 
somewhat cleaner interface for setting 
appointments, since it’s integrated 
into one DA. But you liave to do more 
work to find an old reminder or ap- 



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pointment in Alarming Events be- 
cause it doesn’t provide any search 
facilities for those appointments. 

All in all, I’ve found the user-de- 
finable layout in Appointment Diarv^ 
to be more helpful in organizing my 
day. That, along with its search op- 
tion and its ability to transfer ap- 
pointments to my Z88, make Smart 
Alarms with Appointment Diaiy the 
time manager that I use. — Dave Kosiur 

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Document-Comparison Utility 



DOCUCOMP 1.5 

Pros: Adds color, support for additional 
file formats, new search and naviga- 
tion capabilities, and new reading options. 

Cons: Doesn't track font, style, or 
size changes or preserve them on screen 
or in the saved comparison document. 
Company: Advanced Software. 
Requires: Mac 512KE. Hard drive strongly 
recommended. List price: $159.95. 



m rv In a world where progmms 
nre fiercely multifunctional 
^ and feature-laden to the 
point of bewilderment, DocuComp is 
a breath of fresh air. Its sole job is to 
compare two versions of a document 
and report on changes between them, 
and this it does very well. Now, with 
this upgrade’s addition of color and 
other enhancements, it does it even 
better. 

Color on computers is usually dis- 
cussed In terms of snazzy graphics, but 
color can be helpful to users of text- 




With Color . . . Without Color Color makes a 
world of difference to the DocuComp comparison 
process. In the color screen, blue represents inser- 
tions; red, deletions; and green, moved text. 



based programs as well. DocuComp is 
a case in point. In version 1.5, color 
isn’t cosmetic, it’s a real productivity 
aid (see “With Color . . . Without 
Color”). 

As in the previous version, 
DocuComp still compares two ver- 
sions of a document via a proprietar>' 
split-screen environment. The process 
is as simple as selecting the new and 
old versions of a document in a dia- 
log box and clicking the Compare 
button. The new version appears in 
the upper pane, the older version in 
the lower pane. Using the Previous 
Change and Next Change buttons, 
you can review changes one at a time. 
You can also make a composite of 
both files and print various reports — 
in color, if you have access to a color 
printer. 

Access to DocuComp 1.5’s color 
option is through the Screen Style 
dialog box in the new Customize 
menu. Red, green, blue, cyan, ma- 
genta, and yellow can be used to 
highlight insertions, deletions, and 
text that has been moved. You can 
choose which colors you want to de- 
note each type of change in the 
document. If your document will be 
read by someone who doesn’t have a 
color monitor, you’d be Ixist advised 
to use color in combination with tra- 
ditional text-highlighting devices, 
such as strike-through and italics. 

Previously, the only way to move 
around a document or find a particu- 
lar piece of text was to use the scrt^ll 
bar. This made for imprecise naviga- 
tion, and searches proved tedious, 
especially in the small, split-screen 
window. With version 1.5, searching 
is as simple as typing a word or phrase 
in the Find dialog box. 

Another enhancement is the abil- 
ity to filter out various word process- 
ing minutiae from- the overall com- 
parison prcxress. You can, for instance, 
choose to ignore hard page breaks 
inserted to cause a printer to stop and 
eject a page; hidden text, which some 
word processors, such as Microsoft 
Word, allow the user to insert in a 
document; automatic paragraph and 
footnote numbering; and any specific 
character. 

With this upgrade. Advanced 
Software has made a special effort to 
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satisfy government workers and users 
of Symantec’s iMore. The latter group 
c'an now include or exclude headlines, 
speaker’s notes, and headers and 
footers when outlines are compared 
with DocuComp. And changes can 
now be marked with revision bars 
only (on the left or right side of the 
page), to satisfy a specific govern- 
ment-reporting requirement. 

More Widely Read 

DocuComp 1.5 now reads Microsoft 
Word 3.0 and 4.0, WordPerfect 1.0, 
WriteNow 1.0 and 2.0, MaeWrite II 1.0, 
and More II and More 3.0, plus ASCII 
and program listings, making it a 
more versatile tool than its predeces- 
sor was. But not all of DocuComp 
1.5’s features are available to all of 
those word processors. For exjtmple, 
neither WriteNow nor WordPerfect 
support color, and MaeWrite II 
doesn’t support line numbers. These 
features are currently av'ailable only 
when printing directly from Docu- 
Comp, not in the .saved composite 
document. 

DocuComp 1.5 packs a bit more 
weight than did previous versions, up 
from 384K to 512K. If you routinely 
compare more than ten pages under 
MultiFinder you might need to ex- 
periment with increasing the memory^ 
allocation to maintain optimum com- 
parison speed. The rule of thumb is 
simple: the more pages you compare, 
the more memory^ you’ll need. 

No Font Tracking 

DocuComp has at least one deficiency 
that still needs to be addressed — its 
inability to track font, style, or size 
changes or to preserve them on 
screen or in the saved comparison 
document. However, Advanced Soft- 
ware says that this enhancement is at 
the top of the list for version 2.0, due 
out in early 1991. 

The upgrade package also comes 
with two free utilities: Script- 
Comparer, a utility for comparing 
HyperCard stacks; and Addresses ik 
Envelopes 1.0, a desk accessory* for 
storing addresses, notes, and phone 
numbers and for c|uickly printing en- 
velopes. With or without the freebies, 
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Forms-Design Software 



IF:X FORMS 
DESIGNER 1.1 

Pros: Brilliant, bold concept; extremely 
easy to revise forms; allows precise posi- 
tioning of text within cells. Cons: For 
design only (no data entryl; slow screen 
redraw; poor text-block handling; 
confusing interface. Company: SoftView. 
Requires: Mac Plus. List price: $279. 

jfX With such major players as 
it Claris and Adobe vying for 
shares of the 1 16-million-dol- 
lar forms processing market, it seems 
strange that professional forms de- 
signers are still using page-layout pro- 
grams (see “Forming Opinions,” 
Macworld, February 1990). The 
people at SoftVievv think they know 
what the problem is and they even say 
they have a .solution. 

It’s called if:x Forms Designer 
(pronounced H'Fix, for some reason). 
Unlike its rivals, this program is for 
design only — you can’t fill out an if:x 
form unless you print it and find a 
pencil. Because SoftView is best known 
for its MacInTax income-titx prepara- 
tion software, you might expect if:x to 
be based on the same forms-display 
technology'; oddly enough, it isn’t. To 
put it mildly, nobody’s .seen anything 
like if:x before. 

The if:x Approach 

Most Mac forms programs are cousins 
of MacDraw, an object-oriented 
graphics program. That is, eveiy ele- 
ment of a form is a distinct graphic 
object on screen, individually resizable 
and reshapable. Adapting MacDraw to 
forms design seems like a smart 
idea — after all, forms consist of rect- 
angles, lines, and text, at which ob- 
ject-oriented programs excel. 

In practice, however, the.se pro- 
grams are almost more trouble than 
they’re worth (so the thinking at 
SoftView goes), becau.se forms get 
revised — inevitably and frequently. To 
move one object in a MacDraw-style 
program, you have to move several 
others to make room. And to make 
room for those objects, you have to 
move still other object.s — you end up 
practically redesigning the form. 



if:x completely rejects the object- 
oriented approach. Instead, it offers 
a unicjue cross between a spreadsheet 
and Microsoft Word’s table-generation 
feature. The Mac’s blank screen is the 
canvas. Using a special cursor, you 
chop this space into subdivisions that 
roughly approximate the rectangular 
structures of a form (see “Formative 
Stages”). Each click produces a hori- 
zontal or vertical dotted line, depend- 
ing on which way you drag. In this way, 
as though cutting up a cake, you cre- 
ate rectangular cells. Depending on 
whether or not you opt to add a print- 
able border to any of these concep- 
tual dotted lines, the cells become the 
elements of the form — blanks, straight 
lines, text boxes, or just white space. 

Revisions Revisited 

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of a form by adding conceptual boundaries (top). 
Once you've done that, you use tear-off menus to 
add printable lines to certain boundaries (center). 
Finally, you add text, shading, and other touches 
(bottom). There are automatic features for creating 
check boxes and leaders (such as dotted lines). 

You can zoom in or out as you work, and you can 
export the form as an EPS file. 



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the others adjust to make room. De- 
crease the height of one row in a tal:>le, 
and all the other rows slide up to take 
up the slack. The program was born 
for revision-hungry forms designers. 

Furthermore, because the pro- 
gram always maintains the relative 
positions and sizes of the cells, all 
kinds of instantaneous “what-if” op- 
tions are available. While designing 
a laser-printable form on a relatively 
low-resolution Mac screen, for ex- 
ample, you can select a minimum text 
size (such as 9- point) for on-screen 
viewing. Any text smaller than that 
jumps to 9-point so you can read it, 
and all the parts of the form remain in 
formation. When you print, all text re- 
turns to its original size. 

For the exacting designer, there 
are a number of specialized position- 
ing features. Every cell has a margin 
all the way around its inside perimeter; 
you can make any one margin thicker 
or thinner, thus adjusting the position 
of whatever text you enter there. With 
one command, you can rotate what- 
ever text or pasted-in gniphic the cell 
contains. (You can even edit rotated 
text — sure enough, the I-heam cursor 
flips on its side.) You have great con- 
tr(3l over text size and leading, as well 
as line thickness and shading. 

Conceptual Difficulties 

Unfortunately, radical change often 
comes at a price. if:x Forms Designer’s 
biggest problem is what first appears 
to be an amazingly simple interface, 
’rhere are only three tools: one for 
creating cells, one for .selecting, and 
one for moving. But because there are 
many elements you can select or move 
(cell walls, cell margins, text, white 
space, graphics), the cursor changes 
to identify what you’re selecting. In 
fact, there are 13 different cursors. 
Each one produces a different kind of 
highlighting when you click with it. To 
this confusion, add the fact that your 
screen resembles a grid; so you also 
need a way to select one cell wall, an 
entire horizontal line, a whole table, 
and so on. The upshot is that if:x has 
enough modifier keys to hold down, 
and multiple-click shortcuts to learn, 
for ten programs. In one circumstance 
you’re asked to Option-quadruple- 
click to select cells. 

Furthermore, in an effort to eli- 



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True to Form The only way to evenly space lines 
you have created is by snapping them to a grid. 
Unfortunately, each form can have just one grid. If 
you change the grid-line spacing, anything snapped 
to the original grid suddenly snaps to the new 
spacing. Therefore, the check-box table in the 
lower-left comer can't have narrower spacing than 
the address region at the top of this form (unless 
each line is positioned by hand). 

minate the awkwardne.ss of needing 
one Kjol to select something and an- 
other to move it, each of the three 
tools has been given some of the fea- 
tures of the others. This complication 
leads to some awkward moments. If 
you .select a cell and then switch to 
the cell-creation tool, you’re stuck 
becau.se the cell-creation tool can’t 
deselect something. To get rid of the 
highlighting, you have to switch back 
to the selection tool it) deselect the 
highlighted cell before returning to 
the cell-creation tool. 

Iffy Text 

'There are two other unfortunate side 
effects of the program’s cell concept. 
The first is screen redraw: it’s slow. 
With evei 7 adjustment, resizing, or 
alignment, the program repaints its 
screen; a form like the one in “'True 
to Form” takes over 10 seconds per 
redmw on a Mac Hex. On a Mac Plus, 
the program is almost unbearably 
slow. 

The other problem is text. Becau.se 
of the program’s spreadsheetlike 
character, the Tab and Return keys are 
reserved for moving around a form. 
Therefore, each paragraph of text 
must reside in its own cell. You can’t 
create tab stops, and you can’t indent, 
unless you put the first line of text in 
its own, shorter cell. (Whatever you 
do, don’t follow the manual’s advice 
to create indents by ty[)ing spaces. 
Using the space bar for text alignment 
is asking for disaster at laser-[)rinting 
time.) You can’t create justified para- 



graphs, either. These limitations rule 
out the creation of many medical, le- 
gal, and in.sLirance forms, where text 
plays an important role. 

Keeping Informed 

Many of ifix Forms Designer’s prob- 
lems are typical first-release glitches. 
'The friendly and articulate manual, for 
example, shows menu commands and 
dialog boxes that don’t exist. Text en- 
try (especially backspacing) and 
switching from one tool to another are 
ver\' slow'. There’s no color or gray- 
scale support, and pasted graphics 
can’t be resized or cropped. 

Yet there’s something irresistible 
about the program’s concept: all ele- 
ments of a form are interrelated. Wliile 
it’s true that the constantly shifting 
chunks of the form make it almost 
impossible to precisely duplicate an 
existing paper form, initial sketching 
and revisions arc an incredible, enjoy- 
able breeze. No, the current program 
isn’t ready for prime rime. But wait 
until SoftView fixes the speed, text, 
and tool problems (as they’ll un- 
doubtedly do) and adds the ability to 
enter data (as they’ve promLsed to do), 
ifix may yet fulfill its revolutionary' 
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FoxBASE+/Mac helped Stanford Business S}^tems 
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more compact fomiai. Wlicn you need 
to access such files, you expand them 
back to their normal state. The best- 
known such utility is the excellent 
program Stuffit. But the shareware 
Stufflt is an application; so is its 
cjuicker new shareware rival, Compac- 
tor. Having to launch a program every 
time you need to compress or expand 
a file is so inconvenient that it’s 
scarcely worth using for everyday 
work. 

Thus, the stage is set for 
DiskDoubler, a slick little INIT diat you 
drop into the System Folder to acti- 
vate. It puts a new menu, labeled DD, 
on the Finder menu bar. Click on any 
file or folder, choose Compress from 
this menu, and DiskDoubler rapidly 
shrinks the file to roughly half its 
original size. 

How It Works 

Hie beauty of this system is that you 
never have to launch a program to 
decompress a file. You can, if you want, 
select a file and choose Expand from 
the DD menu. But what makes 



DiskDoubler unique is that its com- 
pressed files behave exactly the same 
way that normal files do. You never 
have to expand a file before using it. 

For example, double-click on a 
compressed Word file’s icon. The file 
expands as Word is being launched, 
and the document opens nomially. Or 
suppose you’re in Excel and you need 
to open a spreadsheet you’ve com- 
pressed. Simply choose Open from the 
File menu in the normal way. All your 
Excel files, whether compressed or 
not, appear in the list Ixix; you simply 
double-click on the one you want. 
DiskDoubler’s compressed files ex- 
pand automatically before appearing 
on the screen. You even have the op- 
tion of recompressing files when you 
tjuit the program. 

All of this automatic expansion and 
compression takes much of the head- 
ache out of file compression, and there 
are only a few circumstances in which 
the autoexpand feature doesn’t work 
(PageMaker’s Place command, select- 
ing compressed files with OnCue, and 
low-memory situations). 



About the only aspect of a com- 
pressed file that fsn*t like a normal file 
is the icon. A file that’s been com- 
pressed with DiskDoubler displays a 
generic DiskDoubler icon. In the DD 
menu itself there’s a File Info com- 
mand that correedy identifies the file 
type, such as “Excel document.” But 
by looking at its icon, you have no idea 
what kind of file it is. 

How It Really Works 

Compression programs operate on the 
assumption that any file contains some 
sort of repeated patterns: a graphics 
file might have a whole row of blue 
pixels, a memo contains some repeti- 
tion of letter patterns, and so on. By 
coding this information, the file can 
be represented in a far smaller format 
(“4 blue” instetid of “blue, blue, blue, 
blue”). 

Bec'ttuse of the different degrees 
of repetition contained within files, a 
file-compression utility’s performance 
varies drastically. A TIFF graphics file 
containing lots of white space may 
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212K 

262K 

217K 

113K 

219K 

631K 

136K 

24K 

1044K 

418K 




Compression and Expansion Times 



Expansion 

Compression 

Gray TIFF 

Music file 

Color TIFF 

PageMaker file 

Word file 

Application 

HyperCard stack 

Excel file 

Font file 

Sound file 




9/11 

11/12 

10/12 

8/7 

8/11 

74/61 

8/9 

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98K 



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328K 



72K 



13K 

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For these tests, DiskDoubler was left at its Best Guess setting. Some of these Tests were performed on a Macintosh Ilex with SMB of RAM. Performance 
times would be faster, and compressions greater, if Method A or Method B had varies, depending on the Macintosh model; DiskDoubler's performance on a 

been explicitly selected, since Best Guess doesn't always make the best guess. top-of-the-line llfx is about five times faster than on a Mac Plus. 



244 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 





Double-D Action OiskDoubler's operation is re- 
freshingly simple: click on a file and choose Com- 
press from the DD menu. During the compression 
process, a Thermometer Bar dialog box appears, in- 
dicating how far the compression process has to 
go, and offering you a Stop button. When the com- 
pression is complete, the file you compressed still 
has the same name, but sports a generic 
OiskOoubler icon. 

shrink down to 10 percent of its origi- 
nal size. A printer’s font files, on the 
other hand, are already in an encoded 
format. Therefore they contain few 
patterns, and they may actually wind 
up larger than they were before be- 
ing processed by a file-compression 
utility. 

So how well does DiskDoubler 
work? A file-compression program 
should be judged by its speed, the 
degree of compression it achieves, and 
especially its safety. The last thing you 
want is to forever encode important 
data in an irrecoverable format. 

OiskDoubler’s speed and com- 
pression efficiency are both top-notch. 
In a battery of tests that I performed 
on Word, Excel, TIFF, sound, and 
other files ranging in size from 30K to 
over a megabyte, DiskDoubler took an 
average of 20 seconds for compression 
(see “DiskDoubler Benchmarks”). Ex- 
pansion usually takes slightly longer. 
DiskDoubler’s raw speed and size sta- 
tistics look good even next to those 
of the commercially released Stufflt 
Deluxe 1.0, which has a similar Finder- 
level compression menu. In my com- 
parison, DiskDoubler compressed files 
an average of 10 percent more than 
Stufflt Deluxe, and usually a few sec- 
onds faster. 

DiskDoubler would take even less 
time, in fact, were it not for the INIT’s 
safety features. First, it creates a com- 
pressed duplicate of the original file; 
only when it has successfully com- 
pleted the compression does it delete 
the original. Therefore, the original file 
will always be intact if, say, the power 



goes out in midcompression. The 
second safety feature is write verifi- 
cation, whereby DiskDoubler re- 
checks every byte it has written to the 
disk. If there’s any kind of hard-drive 
problem, such as a mote of dust on 
the disk surface or a SCSI-termination 
snafu, DiskDoubler refuses to proceed 
with the compression. This write- 
verification feature, which you can 
turn off, increases compression time 
by about 20 percent; but it’s time well 
spent. 

First Compressions 

DiskDoubler’s interface and operation 
are blissfully simple. The Compress 
command shrinks one file, or all the 
files within a folder, individually. The 
Combine command compacts a group 
of files (within a single folder) into a 
single small file. The Expand command 
reverses either of the first two opera- 
tions (see “Double-D Action”). 

DiskDoubler is not Stufflt, how- 
ever (although it does decompress 
Stufflt archives). Specifically, Disk- 
Doubler does not offer some of the 
features that Stufflt has that are use- 
ful to tele-communicators. You can- 
not extract a single file from a com- 
bined file, and you cannot combine 
files that reside in different folders. 
Nor will you find DiskDoubler-com- 
pressed files on most online services, 
where Stufflt archives are standard. 
And Disk-Doubler certainly doesn’t 
have any of StufTlt’s high-end features: 
passwords, a desk-accessor>^ version, 
or foreign-file translators for IBM and 
UNIX files. 

But DiskDoubler is designed to 
convert time into money. That is, if 
you’re willing to wait 10 seconds here, 
20 there, while DiskDoubler opens a 
file or a program you've comprevSsed, 
you can easily reclaim double-digit 
megabytes of hard-disk space. All your 
files are still ready to go when you 
need them, and in the meantime, it’s 
simpler and quicker to store them, 
back them up, and send them to 
friends over phone lines. Furthermore, 
DiskDoubler meets the highest stan- 
dards of software design: it’s quick, 
extremely easy to use, and very trust- 
worthy. It’s even inexpensive. For $80, 
you’ll find no better bargain in data 
storage. — David Pogue 

See Where to Buy under "Santa's Spec Sheet." 



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Music-Notation Program 



PYWARE MUSIC 
WRITER 1.1 

Pros: Fast response during note entry, 
tool palette display, and screen re- 
draw; ample selection of musical symbols; 

good MIDI support. Cons: Limited 
positioning of notes; lacks beaming across 
staves; inflexible tuplet system; 
often leaves stray marks on screen; bugs 
in group selection and beaming. 
Company: Pygraphics. Requires: Mac 
Plus. Hard drive recommended. 

List price: 40-staff version $595; 6-staff 
version $295; 3-staff version $119. 

In a market for music-notation 
software already crowded with 
established programs of qual- 
ity, newcomer Pyware Music Writer 
stands out only for the things it does 
wrong. Wiile Music Writer produces 
a handsome piece of sheet music on a 
LaserWriter and offers a healthy array 
of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital 
Interface) features, its otherwise 
stunted feature set and numerous 
quirks will confound and frustrate any 
serious composer or music copyist. 
Music Writer falls far short of compa- 
rably priced high-end programs such 
as Coda Music Software’s Finale, 
Passport Designs’ Encore, and Mark of 
the Unicorn’s Professional Composer, 
and it can’t even hold its own against 
the far less expensive Music Prose 
(Finale’s low-priced version) or the 
best-selling Deluxe Music Construction 
Set (DMCS) from Electronic Arts. 

Symbols and Speed 

Music Writer’s strongest points are its 
wealth of musical symbols and its 
speed, both evident in a crisply re- 
sponsive tool palette system. The pro- 
gram includes all the standard music- 
editing features, including beaming; 
control over stem direction, ties, slurs, 
and phrase marks; and note transpo- 
sition. It prints gorgeous notation if 
you have Adobe’s Sonata font, accepts 
MIDI input for fast note entry, and 
reads and writes MIDI files. Music 
Writer even has a few innovative 
touches that streamline the entry and 
editing of musical symbols; unfortu- 
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245 








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nately, the program consistently falls 
clown when it comes to the details. 

Music Writer provides a uniquely 
easy way to move notes and other 
symbols around on your score as long 
as the score is relatively uncom- 
plicated. You need only point at the 
symbol with the cursor — no clicking 
is necessary — and you’re free to adjust 
its position precisely with the cursor 
keys. If you’re pointing at a note, the 
up and down cursor keys move its 
pitch up and down. 

But three big problems mar this 
system. First, you’re forced to use the 
keyboard to reposition symbols. In- 
credibly, you can’t drag notes and 
other symbols from place to place; al- 
though you can explicitly select an in- 
dividual symbol with the mouse, all 
you can do then is cut or copy the 
symbol, or if it’s a note, alter its rhyth- 
mic value. Second, Music Writer offers 
no visual feedback to tell you which 
symbol you’re pointing to. When sev- 
eral symbols are crowded together, 
the only way to tell which one the 
pointer is on is to see which one 
moves when you press a cursor key 
to reposition it. 

Finally, the program places rather 
harsh limits on how far you can move 
a note horizontally — specifically, you 
can’t move a note past the original 
position of the previous or subsequent 
notes. The ability to position symbols 
freely, exactly where you want them, 
is a key requirement for professional- 
level music-publishing software, and 
Music Writer fails in this regard. Even 
Deluxe Music Construction Set per- 
mits you to move notes an>avhere you 
want them in a staff. 

Details, Details 

Music Writer omits .several other fea- 
tures that are critical for .serious com- 
posers and music copyists. If you write 
on a grand staff for piano, for example, 
the program’s inability to beam notes 
across staves will be unacceptable. On 
the other hand, the program seems to 
be targeted at composers of band and 
orchestral music, who may not notice 
this deficiency. 

In addition, while Music Writer’s 
somewhat unconventional .system for 
entering tuplets handles common 
tuplet values comfortably, it breaks 
down when you get fancy. As in other 



high-end notation programs, you can 
specify both the number of tupled 
notes and the time in which the 
tupled notes should play. But with 
Music Writer’s competition, you select 
the time value as the number of ordi- 
nary' notes of the same rhythmic value 
as the tuplets. You might, for example, 
call for .seven eighth-note tuplets in 
the time of four ordinary eighth notes. 
In Music Writer, on the other hand, 
you indicate the duration of a tuplet 
by selecting a single note value repre- 
senting the total time of the tuplet fig- 
ure. In this case, the septuplet would 
be seven eighth-note tuplets in the 
time of one half note. The problem 
with this method is that you’re stuck 
with a limited number of possibilities, 
paaicularly since you can’t use dotted- 
note values for the tuplet figure. In the 
Chopin Etude I tried to enter, several 
half measures include tuplets of five 
eighth notes against an underlying 
pulse of six. Six eighths last as long as 
a dotted half note, a value you can’t 
use. You certainly aren’t free to specify 




MIDI Transcription MusicWriter can transcribe 
what you play on a MIDI keyboard into standard 
music notation. Among other options, this dialog 
lets you control the way the transcription handles 
sharps, flats, and notes with stem flags. 




Writing the Score In Music Writer, the score you 
work on flows only horizontally, each staff stretch- 
ing beyond the side of the window as far as neces- 
sary: in a score for piano like this one. much of the 
screen space is wasted. You can see how the 
staves will actually break on the printed page with 
a print preview command, but you can’t edit the re- 
sulting page image. Note the stacked symbol pal- 
ettes to the left of the score window. 



even more complex timings such as 
seven in the time of five. 

Mu.sic Writer makes it very easy 
CO create and place staves of all sorts 
in your musical manuscript. However, 
you aren’t guided by any numeric 
reference point when positioning 
these staves; consequently there’s no 
way to ensure uniform spacing be- 
tween the staves unless you stick with 
the defiiult staff placements. 

Music Writer also requires two 
completely different techniques to 
delete ties and slurs. Most notation 
programs I’ve tried occasionally leave 
behind stray dots or lines on the 
screen after you’ve moved a .symbol, 
but Music Writer commits this gaffe 
with annoying frequency. 1 spent a 
good deal of my time with the pro- 
gram using the Redraw command to 
remove the flotsam and jetsam; the 
one saving grace is that the program 
redraws very quickly. 

And a Few Bugs 

My tests al.so uncorked several outright 
bugs in important program features. 
Tlie function for selecting symbols in 
a group sometimes goes haywire. As 
you’d expect, you can drag across a 
region to select a group of symbols for 
cut-and-paste operations and the like. 
At times, however. Music Writer high- 
lights the wrong .sections of the .score, 
and sometimes it simply fails to select 
any symbols at all. Glitches also occur 
in the beaming function. When 1 tried 
to beam a series of six 16th notes. 
Music Writer drew a malpositioned 
8th-note beam to the last note in the 
group. Several attempts to correct the 
problem failed, and I had to delete the 
notes and start over. 

If Py'graphics fills the most glaring 
gaps and flushes out the bugs. Music 
Writer would be a serviceable notation 
program, suitable for most every'day 
music-copying chores. Drop the list 
price of the 40-staff version by a few 
hundred dollars, and Music Writer’s 
extensive symbol library would make 
it serious competition for DMCS (the 
lower-cost 3- and 6-staff Music Writer 
versions now available are too crippled 
to even consider). Against the expen- 
sive notation programs, however. 
Music Writer has a very long way to 
go. — Steve Cummings 

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UTILITIES 



1st Aid Software 

Complete Undelete 


S34 


Deluxe 1st Aid Software Kit 


$*14 


Abbott Systems, Inc. 

Car’, Opener 


$62 


Aladdin Systems 

Shorlcul 


$45 


Sluflll Deluxe 


$63 


ALSoft 

DiskExpress II 2.04 


$53 


Fonl/DA Juggler Plus 1.16 

MaslerJuggler 1.5 


$42 


$63 


MulliDisk 1.2 


$48 


American Power Conversion 

Power Chule 


$67 


Berkeley System Design. Inc. 

After Dafk 2 0 


$22 


Bravo 

SPAMM 


$48 


CE Software 

Quickeys 


$61 


DiskTop 4.0 


$62 


Custom Applications 

Freedom ol Press 3.0 


$255 


Fifth Generation System 

DiskLock 


$105 


FastBack II 


$105 


Pov/er Station 


$33 


Suitcase I1 1.2 


$42 


SuperSpool 5.0 


$58 


Freesoft 

WhiteKnigh1 11 


$85 


Kent Marsh 

MacSale 1 08C 


$107 


NiqhtWalch 1.03 


$86 


QuickLock 1.0 


$34 


Microm 

Virex 


$57 


OLDUVAI 

MulliClip 2.0 


$68 


ON Technology 

On Location 


$74 


Software Innovations 

Hand Off 11 


$50 


Semak 

Script Edit 


$48 


SharpenUp 


$59 


Symantec Corporation 
Symantec Antivirus for the Mac 


$67 


Symantec Utilities for Macintosh 


$98 


Symmetry 

Acta Advantage 


$63 


Visionary Software 

LileGuard 


$49 









REVIEWS 



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PostScript-Compatible Laser Printer 



LASERSCRIPT 

Pros: Compact; includes SMB of memory; 

good LaserJet Series II emulation; 
good paper-handling features. Cons: Not 
as fast as other PostScript clones; 
can't use Type 1 downloadable fonts; out- 
put may be too dark for some tastes. 
Company: Abaton, a subsidiary of Everex 
Systems. List price: $2995. 




Timing is everything. Last year 
a $2995 PostScript-compatible 
printer with 3MB of memory 
would have attracted quite a hit of at- 
tention. But just this year, Apple in- 
troduced the $3299 Personal Laser- 
Writer NT, GCC unveiled the $2299 
Business UserPrinter II (BLP II), Texas 
Instruments shipped the $2999 
microLaser 35PS, and QMS launched 
the $2795 PS 410 — all true Adobe 
PostScript printers, and all either good 
or downright superb values (see “Page 
Printers Revisited,” Macworld, Octo- 
ber 1990). In a matter of months, the 
low-end PostScript-printer market had 
exploded — ^and left ver\^ little room for 
the Abaton LaserScript. 

The 35-pound LaserScript does 




The LaserScript 
PostScript- 
compatible 
laser printer 
from Abaton 



have some desirable attributes. Its 300- 
dpi TKC 1305 engine prints 6 pages per 
minute (ppm) versus the 4-ppm pace 
of Apple’s, GCC’s, and QMS’s low-end 
offerings. The LaserScript handles pa- 
per well, although its tray holds only 
150 sheets versus the 200- or 250-sheet 
capacities of its competitors. Its print 
quality is excellent, although text may 
be a bit too dark for some tastes. And 
it’s easy to set up — simply install a 
toner cartridge ($45; good for 1500 
pages) and a drum unit ($150; good 
for 10,000 pages). 

'The LaserScript provides three 
connection ports: LocalTalk, RS-232C 
serial, and Centronics parallel. QMS’s 
PS 410 also includes those three; 
GCC’s BLP II and Apple’s Personal 
LaserWriter NT omit the panillel port; 



and LocalTalk and serial ports are op- 
tions on the T1 microLaser. The I^ser- 
Script provides front-panel switches for 
switching between ports and between 
its PostScript- and Hewlett-Packard 
LaserJet Series Il-emulation modes. A 
small front-panel liquid-crystal display 
shows the current operating mode as 
well as status messages. 

Not So Fast 

The l^serScript uses the PostScript 
interpreter developed by Microsoft 
and Bauer Technologies. The printer’s 
controller uses a National Semicon- 
ductor NS32CG16 processor running 
at 15iMHz. It provides 35 built-in fonts, 
the standard I^serWriter Plus mix. The 
fonts themselves were created by 
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ABATON UmUPTBiCHMARKS 



All times are in seconds 



FreeHand 



Newsletter 



Courier 

A 20-page Word 4.0 
document containing 
double-spaced 12- 
point Courier with 
bold and italic. 



n/lacDrawll 

A newspaper 
graphic containing 
over 2200 objects 
and several lines of 
Helvetica text. 



An Aldus FreeHand 
2.0 illustration {the 
sample file named 
Motorcycle). 



A 4-page Aldus Page- 
Maker document con- 
taining several fonts, 
three gray-scale 
scanned images, and 
one MacPaint image. 



Qume CrystalPrint Pub. II 
LaserWriter IINTX 
NEC SilentWriter2 290 
Abaton LaserScript 
Tl microLaser 
Personal LaserWriter NT 
HP LaserJet IIP 




204 

164 

167 

215 

192 

308 

310 




105 

156 

279 

420 

356 

739 

504 






425 




523 




1027 


■ 


1293 




1331 


ySBBiSi 


1274 




1811 







181 




191 



203 

317 

I I 1 I I 



Fonts 

A 7-page Word 4.0 
document contain- 
ing the Macintosh 
character set in a 
variety of fonts, 
sizes, and styles. 





147 




430 




700 




382 




1037 




497 




710 


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The LaserScript was slightly faster than a LaserWriter IINTX in the fonts test. Tests were performed on a 2MB Macintosh II mnning MultiFinder with 

but slower In every other test. The LaserScript was particulariy slow when background printing disabled, using version 6.0 of the LaserWriter driver, 

processing scanned images and Aldus FreeHand drawings. 



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Bitstream, but their appearance and 
character widths match Adobe's. The 
printer provides two cartridge slots 
that accept Hewlett-Packard Liserjet- 
compatible font cartridges. 

Companies that sell PostScript 
clones like to claim their wares are 
faster than Adobe PostScript printers, 
and Abaton is no exception. “Faster 
than the Apple La.serWriter IINTX," 
Abaton proclaims, but that isn’t nec- 
essarily so. In my performance tests, 
the I^serScript w'as slightly faster than 
a LaserWriter IINTX when processing 
a typographically complex job, but 
considerably slower in every other test 
(see “Abaton LaserScript Bench- 
marks’’). Indeed, in most tests the 
LaserScript was slower than a 
UiserWriter IINT, and in some it fin- 
ished behind the Personal HtserWriter 
NT and the TI microLaser. And the 
biserScript couldn’t begin to approach 
the speed of another PostScript clone, 
Qume’s CrystalPrint Publisher 11. 

The inability to use downloadable 
fonts stored in the Adobe Type 1 for- 
mat is a more serious problem, one 
shared by the CiystalPrint Publisher. 
That means you can’t use Adobe’s 
top-notch library of downloadable 
fonts or any of the growing number 
of Type 1 fonts supplied by other 
vendors. Abaton says a new version 
of the controller will accept Type I 
fonts and should be available by the 
time you read this. An upgrade will 
be available for existing HiserScripts, 
but at this writing, Abaton had not 
determined its price. 

Not a Contender 

The LaserScript includes an excellent 
manual with detailed instructions on 
using the printer with the Mac and 
with IBM PCs. It also includes a disk 
containing Apple’s HiserWriter driver 
version 5.2 — not the newer 6.0 driver, 
which provides better performance, 
support for more page sizes, and the 
ability to print halftones of color im- 
ages. The I^serScript worked fine with 
the 6.0 driver in my tests. 

In the end, the LaserScript just 
isn’t a contender among low-end 
PostScript printers. Its mediocre per- 
formance, smaller paper capacity, and 
inability to use Type 1 fonts can’t off- 
set its fine print quality and 6-ppm 
engine. Perhaps the new, Type 1- 



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compatible interpreter will offer bet- 
ter performance. Until it becomes 
available, however, the low-end offer- 
ings from Apple, Texas Instruments, 
GCC, and QMS are better choices. 

— Jim Held 

See Where to Buy or circle 760 on reader service card. 

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Gantt Chart-Creation Software 



GREAT GANTT 1.2 

Pros: Creates customized Gantt charts 
from templates or from scratch; 
imports MacProject files. Cons: Needs 
MacProject file to effectively manage 
a large project; calendars don't 
adjust for task durations that include a 
weekend. Company: Varcon Systems. 
Requires: Mac 51 2K. List price: $195. 

^ Great Gantt lets you create 
improve the apjiearance 
of Gantt charts, diagrams that 
use horizontal bars to show how long 
various tasks in a project will take to 
complete. The bars’ beginning and 
endpoints correspond to calendar 
dates along a chart’s horizontal axis, 
and the length of a bar represents the 
duration of a task. Bars are stacked 
accortling to the order in which the 
tasks will be performed, and the time 
marked by the start of the first stacked 
bar and the end of the last stacked bar 
is the length of time the project will 
take. 

People who use a Macintosh to 
manage projects typically rely on 
project-scheduling programs like 
MacProject to help them get the job 
done. Such programs offer sophisti- 
cated features such as automatic task 
dependency and resource-manage- 
ment functions; but the reports from 



those prognims, especially the Gantt 
charts, are plain and often difficult to 
understand. Using Great Gantt you can 
can open MacProject files directly, and 
import specially formatted files from 
other Macintosh project-management 
software, to make grc'at-looking Gantt 
charts that are simple to understand. 

Status Report 

The status of an entire project can be 
immediately clear in a well-draw'n 
Gantt chart. It’s easy to tell which tasks 
have been completed, which ones are 
underway, how close a task is to 
completion, and what tasks remain to 
be started. With Great Gantt you can 
make each of these task conditions 
look different. A completed task could 
be represented by a solid bar, and a 
task that hasn’t been started could be 
represented by a clear bar. You can 
use fill patterns and shading to convey 
additional information about the sta- 
tus of a task; a delayed task might be 
shaded, for extimple, and a task that 
is 50 percent completed might be 50 
percent solid and 50 percent clear. If 
you don’t like those fill patterns, you 
can choose your own. 

You could create such a chart in a 
draw program, but Great Gantt does 
more than just draw and shade bars. 
It also shows task start dates, finish 
dates, and durations, as well as the 
current or progress date (the date that 
represents actual progress for each 
task). The program displays the name 
of each task on either the right or left 
side of the chart, or on both sides. You 
can make an adjustment to a task by 
moving one or both ends of its bar, 
and the program recalculates the 
project dates in a box that includes the 
planned and actual start and finish 
(coiitimws) 

Building a Better 
Jig With Great 
Gantt you can show 
task dependencies, 
as well as their sta- 
tus. A program- 
generated legend 
explains all the task- 
bar status symbols. 




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dates. Unfortunately, Great Gantt 
doesn’t adjust for weekends. If a 
project is scheduled to begin on Mon- 
day, April 5, and end on Friday, April 
9, for example, and you change the 
start date to Wednesday, April 7, the 
program doesn’t add extra days to 
adjust the end date — it shows Sunday 
as the completion date of the task. 

Great Gantt includes a tool for 
creating tasks, a tool for recording the 
progress of each task, and a tool for 
placing milestones (which represent 
important events). Another tool lets 
you show the relationship between 
tasks if one can’t be started until an- 
other has been finished. This depen- 
dency is shown by arrows pointing to 
the preceding tasks (see ‘‘Building a 
Better Jig”). The slippage tool is used 
to show the amount of time betw'een 
when an event was scheduled to 
happen and when it actually was 
undertaken. 

Finishing Touches 

Great Gantt also has tools that help 
you put the finishing touches on a 
chart. You can add your own graph- 
ics, and you can place extra columns 
on the left or right side of the chart to 
show dates, costs, or other essential 
parameters of your project. The pro- 
gnim will also create a legend explain- 
ing all the symbols in the chart. You 
can display two calendars on a chart, 
one at the top and one at the bottom. 
You also can at Id a header, a footer, 
or both to further explain the chart. A 
title block that shows the schedule 
name, your name, and the date the 
schedule was printed helps give your 
chart that professional touch. 

The manual includes a good tuto- 
rial and detailed descriptions of all 
menu selections. The descriptions in- 
clude Informative sections that tell you 
when and why you would want to u.se 
a command and how to u.se it. 

Small-Scale Projects 

If you manage projects with less than 
20 or 30 individual tasks (and so don't 
need automatic resource leveling or 
other such features), or if you use 
Gantt charts as a vehicle to explain 
your projects to others, Great Gantt 
may just make your job easier. 

— Brooks Hunt 

Sea Where to Buy or circle 744 on reader service cord. 



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Arcade Game 



SKY SHADOW 1.0.2 

Pros: Fun sounds; colorful graphics; 
highly addictive. Cons: Severe penalties for 
minor mistakes; often crashes 
under Multi-Finder. Company: Casady & 
Greene. Requires: Mac Plus. 

List price: Version 1.0B $49.95. 

Sky Shadow is a colorful ar- 
cade-style shoot- ’em-up game 
l!=i^3 from the creator of Crystal 
Quest — Patrick Buckland. Your mis- 
sion is to evade or shoot various alien 
spacecraft as they shoot back and tiy 
to ram you. At the same time, you 
bomb the alien surface installations 
while trying hard not to hit the few 
remaining pockets of friendly natives. 

To succeed, you have to master 
bombing the enemy and landing on 
the one hospitable airsirip. Bonus 
points are based on bombing accura- 
cy and on the difficulty of the bomb- 
ing run. Your guns are increased to a 
maximum of three, based on your 
score after each landing. 

The game starts off fairly slowly 
with only a few aliens, but after one 
time around ihe landscape, things start 
to heat up. Once your score reaches 
100,000 you go into MegaMode, which 
is about twice as fast and can lead to 
some hefty bonuses if your bombing 
accuracy Is close to 100 percent. Natu- 
rally the speed makes it harder to land 
on the short landing strip. 

There is a way around the landing 
problem. As you fly along you run 
across little icons that give you such 
goodies as smart bombs (which kill all 
enemies and wipe out obstacles), au- 
tomatic landing capability, instant re- 




Invulnerability Ahead Fleeing its enemies (left). 
Sky Shadow is about to grab an invulnerability 
blob. (Note: background shown here has been 
altered.) 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



pair of all damage, automatic continu- 
ous gun firing, higher-scoring bombs, 
bonus points, and, everyone’s party 
favorite, invulnerability. 

HyperSpace 

Once you learn to land and you get all 
the guns and neat equipment, you’ll 
find that your score goes up until 
suddenly you are in HyperSpace, 
where things really speed up and the 
in\ailnerability icons become necessary 
to your continued existence. 

Unfortunately, steering is all up 
and down, and though you can slow 
down and speed up some, you can’t 
turn around. You have to catch those 
invulnerabilities or die. You can end 
up staring at the right-hand edge of 
the screen, hoping for invulnerability 
icons, which are unfortunately hard to 
see. Eyestniin is a definite possibility, 
so it helps to pause the game once in 
a while and rest your eyes. 

Sky Shadow is basically a fun game 
with Buckland’s usual neat and funny 
array of sounds and graphics. It docs 
have two basic flaws, however. Oddly 
enough, the first is that you can save 
the game at any time. This means you 
can save the game in midflight, as soon 
as you pick up an invulnerability to- 
ken. Scores in the billions are pos- 
sible, but so is boredom. To keep the 
suspense in the game at the higher 
levels, it might have been better to 
allow players to save the game tmly af- 
ter a landing. 

The second flaw is that you must 
try ue?y hard to avoid bombing, 
shooting, or crashing into friendly 
towns. If you do hit one, you are pe- 
nalized all the points you scored with 
the current ship, which can be mil- 
lions. 'I’he penalties would be fair ex- 
cept that sometimes several bandits 
can hit you at once and knock out the 
retro rockecs. If you make even a small 
downward adjustment to try to avoid 
the bandits, you can lose control and 
crash into a friendly city, wiping out 
the entire score for that ship. Warn- 
ing: Severe rage may occur. I’d like it 
belter if the penalty were less severe, 
perhaps only a mere million or so. 

All in all, though. Sky Shadow is 
an engaging, fun, and highly addictive 
game — just what you expect from the 
instigator of Ciy^stal Quest. — ^Tom Moran 

See Whoro to Buy or circle 816 on reader service card. 





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Skiing Simulation Game 



MACSKI 1.0 

Pros: Wide variety of courses and 
scoring modes; easy-to-use course editor; 

humorous sound effects and graph- 
ics. Cons: Jumpy animation on cluttered 
courses; minor bugs. Requires: Mac 
Plus; 2MB RAM for color. Company: XOR 
Corporation, list price: $69.95. 

MacSki is designed to simu- 
I'iite that special excitement of 
. JS. . : flying down a powdered 
slope, racing past all obstacles, with 
perfect coordination. But before you 
even open the box, two simple pre- 
cautions could quickly change your 
status on the slopes from novice to hot 
dog. First, turn your mouse over and 
give the rollers and ball a good clean- 
ing. Using an unresponsive mouse on 
the MacSki slopes is comparable to 
showing up for the Olympics sporting 
a pair of cheap rentals. Second, clear 
off your desk and give youi*self plenty 
of elbovvroom to maneuver the mouse. 
The courses in the MacSki package arc 
some of the hairiest imaginable, often 
requiring sharp cuts with little fore- 
warning. It would be a shame to eat 
snow on a crowded slope just because 
your coffee mug got in the way. 

The initial MacSki interface is an 
apres-ski scene enticingly called Brew’s 
Ski Lodge. Bedecked with a flashing 
neon arrow, the lodge senses as a cen- 
tral menu of self-explanatoiy icons that 
enable you to choo.se different types 
of skis, change weather conditions, 
check up on the cc^mpetition, and 
open new courses. Clicking on the 
snowbanks surrounding the lodge 
starts you at the top of the currently 
loaded course. There are 23 courses 
included with the game, as well as an 
easy-to-use Course Editor that allows 
you to create your own run, or modify 
an existing one. 

The Clock Is Running 

The game’s seemingly simple objective 
is to get from the top to the bottom in 
as little time as po.ssible. Clicking the 
mouse button starts the timer, and 
each subsequent click gives the poles 
a push, rapidly increasing your speed 
until you are in a full tuck position. 



Running over a stopwatch freezes the 
timer for a few seconds, and hitting a 
cake of wax increases your speed dra- 
matically. Moving the mouse to the left 
or right turns the skier with varying 
degrees of responsiveness, depending 
on the size and flexibility of your skis, 
your speed, and current weather con- 
ditions. Tlie Other menu offers you the 
opportunity to control the skier with 
custom keystrokes. Unfortunately, be- 
cause of a bug that has since been 
corrected but was mistakenly left on 
the initial release, I ct)uldn’t use this 
option. 

Gunning for Frosty 

The courses vaiy in degree of difficulty 
and grade of slope, and some offer 
standard ct)mpetition layouts such as 
giant slalom and downhill, where you 
must ski around single gates — alter- 
nating on the left and right side.s — or 
through pairs of flags. Missing a pre- 
scribed turn invokes a [:>enalty, adding 
time to your overall .score. Other runs 
have le.ss conventional scoring meth- 
ods, for exaFiiple penguin scoring 
(definitely not for the animal rights 
activist). You must run over every' bird 
on the slopes (they give out a nasty 
little .squawk when you llatten them), 
and your time increases for each one 
that you mi.ss. Snowman scoring is 
very' similar, and perhaps a little more 
humane. 

Despite MacSki’s apparent sim- 
plicity, my first couple of runs down 
the powder of Algorithm ia (the default 
course rated at the easiest level) were 
a rc'al disaster. Obstacles on this course 
are numerous and randomly placed, 
ranging from rabbits and boulders to 
cameramen and igloos. 1 fitting one of 
these hazards at high speed can result 
in wipeouts remini.scent of the “Wide 
World of Sports” “agony of defeat” 
footage. 

A Wild Ride 

1 chose a firm, standard-length pair of 
skis and ended up with a little more 
than 1 could handle. As you increase a 
ski’s length and firmne.ss, you gain 
speed but sacrifice turning ability. I 
quickly realized that my choice had not 
becfi a prudent one as I zigzagged 
down the course, squashing a sc|uirrel 
here and straddling a pine tree there. 
Perhaps the most humiliating collision 




A Skier's Best Friend Unfortunate skiers who 
are prone to wipeouts are encouraged to finish 
the course by a bewildered, but amiable. Saint 
Bernard with a brandy cask around his neck. 



I took was smack into the behind of a 
Lycra-clad ski bunny, who feebly lifted 
her head from the snow and yelled in 
a na.sal voice, “Bean brain!” 

Each time I took a fall, I somer- 
saulted through the air and landed 
with a loud groan. To recover from a 
fall, you must click the mouse repeat- 
edly until the skier gets back on his 
feet. You can al.so set the game to do 
the clicking for you. The amount of 
time it takes you to stand again de- 
pends on how fast you were going 
when you fell, how tjuickly you ciin 
click a mouse button, and on how 
many previous spills you have taken 
on the run. If you are extremely prone 
to wipeouts, eventually a bewildered- 
looking Saint Bernard will plod across 
the course to renew your spirit with a 
few pulls from the cask around its 
neck. WTien you cro.ss the finish line, 
the crowd lets out a cheer of approval 
and you are given your rank among 
the top five times for the course. 

Breaking Records 

'fhe graphics and sound effects in this 
game are original and entertaining, and 
with a little practice I quickly found 
myself flying down the slopes like a 
pro. The pi'ograin crashes occasionally 
in color mode, but returns you to the 
Finder rather than crashing the whole 
system. I also enjoyed designing my 
own courses and challenging friends 
to top my records. Each course .saves 
a top-five list, noting any inclement 
weather. Split times and the difi'erence 
between your score and record times 
are given as you race, and the real 
challenge of the game lies in trying to 
break long-standing records. 

— Evan Cooper 

See WFiere to Buy or circle 718 on reader service card. 



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Document-Conversion Utility 



WORD FOR WORD 
MAC 1.2 

Pros: Makes conversions to and from 
Mac and MS-DOS document formats fast 
and easy; expandable. Cons: Doesn't 
always retain format of translated docu- 
ments; Mac-to-PC transfers not ex- 
plained; conversion codes not defined; PC 
Excel not labeled as such; limited 
number of converters. Company: Devel- 
oped by Mastersoft; published by 
The Software Toolworks. Requires: Mac 
Plus. List price: $149.95. 

Word for Word Mac is a utility 
convcMt documents 
K into 6 Macintosh and 26 PC 
text formats. You can co['>y to disk only 
those converters you are likely to use, 
or copy all of them, which takes up 
142 IK of disk space. 

Most of the time you will probably 
be transferring data between word 
processors, although Word for Word 
Mac also includes features for con- 
verting information from page-layout 
applications and PC Excel and Lotus 
1-2-3 spreadsheets for use in Macin- 
tosh or IBM PC word processors. 
Conversions can also be made to 
and from a variety of formats: Mac-to- 
Mac, Mac-to-PC, PC-to-Mac, and even 
PC-to-PC. 



Document-to-Document Conversions 

Converting a document is simple. First, 
you double-click on a source file. Next, 
you select a target format and a loca- 
tion. Clicking on the Convert button 
opens a window with tw'o calibrated 
thermometers (red and green on color 
monitors), which track the progress of 
the conversion. 

Word for Word Mac automatically 
names the converted file using a 
combination of the original file name 
and an abbreviation based on the 
target formal type. For example, an 
Excel file named Excel Test and con- 
verted for use in Microsoft Word 4.0 
would be named MW4 Excel Test. An 
t)ption allows the name of the con- 
verted document to either remain the 
same as the original or have the target 
format abbreviation placed after the 
name. 



Almost Faithfully Converted 

.MaeWrite and Microsoft Word docu- 
ments containing graphics can also be 
translated (see “Picture Perfect"). 
When I tried this, the graphic was 
converted, along with the point size 
and st\4ing of three typefaces. I w'as 
impressed. I also achieved similar 
success in preserving formatting 
characteristics when transmitting a 
Mac .Microsoft Word file to the P(". 
version of WordPerfect. 

A conversion from a Mac Excel llle 
to a Mac Word file was only pailially 
successful, however. All the informa- 
tion arrived on the other side and was 
fully editable, but some of the columns 
needed realigning. I later discovered 
that the Excel file converter referred 
to in the Word for Word Mac list is in 
fact the PC Excel file converter, 
though it is not identifietl as such. 1 
also learned that proportional fonts 
may cause misalignment of translated 
columns. A nonproportional font (like 
Courier) translates more smoothly. It 
would be nice if all of these potential 
glitches were mentioned in the 
manual. By the time you read this, 
however. The Software Toolworks 
should be shipping a new version of 




Microsoft Word 4.0 file, without graphics, to a PC 
ASCII format by selecting both the source and des- 




Picture Perfect As you can see from this screen, 
both text and graphics transferred accurately from 
MaeWrite II version 1.0 (right) to Microsoft Word 
4.0 (left). 



Word for Word Mac that clears up the 
confusion over the Excel translation 
and supports graphic transfer to 
Macintosh WordPerfect. 

Conversion Limitations 

Retaining formatting features of con- 
verted documents is one of Word for 
Wt)i*d Mac’s most valuable features. 
But despite claims that the j^rogram 
tninslates all formatting and page-lay- 
out features, the manual admits that 
Word for Word .Mac can’t do this in all 
cases, and the program cc^itains op- 
tions for reporting items within a 
document it can’t translate. 

The bottom line is that some items 
just don’t translate in Word for Word 
Mac; the program embeds a 3-lettcr 
conversion code in the translated 
document or j:>roduces a separate 
document containing a list of non- 
converted items. 

Some of the codes used are easy 
enough to understand. For example, 
<lTO> stands for italics on and 
</77‘*> for italics off, indicating that 
the text between the two codes should 
be italicized. Others are more ciyptic 
and sent me back to pre-Mac days 
when I saw similar inscrutabilities 
upon documents created with my 
Kaypro 2X. 1 mean, what does header f 
footer discontimiance (<HFD>) 
mean? Or rest hyphenation zone 
(hotzone) (</?//Z>)?The manual lists 
all of these codes but does not define 
them. In my opinion, the next edition 
should. 

Something el.se that should find a 
place in the next edition of the manual 
is a simple discussion about cross- 
platform transfers. For PC-to-Macin- 
tosh conversions, the program as- 
sumes that the source document has 
already been transferred. Some usei*s 
will certainly be confused when they 
insert a PC disk into a Mac expecting 
Word for Word Mac to w’ork wonders 
and are asked (by the Macintosh Op- 
erating System) if they wish to ini- 
tialize the disk. The files must first be 
made Mac-ready by a trip through 
Apple File Exchange before Word for 
Word Mac can begin its work. These 
shortcomings are disturbing, and they 
distract from what is othei*w'ise a fine 
and veiy w'elcome product. 

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by Lawrence Stevens 



This month I look at four programs that 
help with your typing, writing, 
researching, and mailing tasks. I also 
introduce a computer buddy. 

Magic Typist 1.1 (formeriy Clairvoyant 1.1) 

Word processors have grown up since 
the early eighties when I first started 
using a computer. My typewriter-laden 
friends used to go gaga over the 
software’s ability to delete, copy, and 
insert (which was about all it could 
do). Now many people consider word 
processors that lack glossaries, style 
sheets, and page-layout functions to be 
hopelessly inadequate. 

But no matter how sophisticated 
these packages are, none has elimi- 
nated the need to use the keyboard. 
Enter Magic Typist ($99 from Tactic 
Software), a program designed to help 
lighten your typing load by automati- 
cally completing some words after you 
type the first few letters. 

To set up Magic Typist, you have 
to build a vocabuIar>^ of your most- 
used words. You specify the length of 
the words you want Magic Typist to 
learn and then have it “watch” as you 
type with any word processing or text 
editing software. Any words at or over 
the length you specify are automati- 
cally added to Magic Typist’s vocabu- 
lary. I^ter you can edit the vocabulaty^ 
eliminating words you don’t want. You 
also set the length of each word’s root: 
the first few letters of each word that, 
when typed, cause Magic Typist to 
complete the word. 

Let’s say you want Magic Typist to 
learn all words that contain seven or 
more letters and you set the root 
length to four letters. The next time 
you type the word computer, the 
program adds that word to its vocabu- 
lary, designating the first four letters, 
or comp as the root. 

From that point on, whenever you 
type comp, a dialog box appears that 




contains a numbered list of all the 
words in Magic Typist’s vocabulary 
that begin with those four letters. For 
example, the box might display 
/. comparison, 2. complicate, 3- com- 
puter, and 4. computerize. You type 
in the number that corresponds to 
your choice, and the program com- 
pletes the word for you. 

I’m a fast hunt-and-peck typist, so 
by the time the dialog box appears and 
I select the word I w^ant, type the 
number, and wait for the program to 
type the remaining letters, I could have 
typed the word myself and be 20 
words further along. 

There are, however, two ways in 
w'hich Magic Typist might come in 
handy. The first is that it can type en- 
tire blocks of text including tabs and 
paragraphs. For example, you can have 
it enter an entire letter heading 
whenever you type your name. 

The second way involves the 
program’s ability to replace unique 
abbreviations with a complete word or 
phrase. Magic Typist makes you go 
through a somewhat involved process 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



I to set this up but, for example, you 
I can have the program type computer 
whenever you type cpt or message 
whenever you type msg. This ap- 
proach might be good for anyone 
suffering from carpal tunnel syn- 
drome. The advantage is that you 
don’t have to use the dialog box. 

The program is relatively fast. So 
if your typing tasks are taking too long, 
and you are walling to learn some new 
tricks, this is for you. 

SwiftNotes 1.0 

For most people, the biggest problem 
is not how to type but what to type. 
As a teacher, I find that many students 
have problems taking notes and in- 
corporating them into their papers. 
Either they take very skimpy notes 
and then compose their papers using 
whatever information they happen to 
have collected, or they take volumi- 
nous notes but have no adequate way 
of organizing them. 

SwiftNotes, a $44.95 HyperCard 
stack from Sterling Swift Software, 
helps you enter and organize research 
notes. It virtually forces you to main- 
tain complete references for each note, 
organizes the notes by topic, and pro- 
vides a means of pasting the relevant 
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Viewing Your Notes All notes are accessed from 
this screen. You set up a different bookshelf for 
each project. Each book is automatically labeled 
with the title of one note; clicking on a book spine 
takes you to the complete note; clicking on an 
empty book spine takes you to a blank note card. 

259 





pans of each note into a word proces- 
sor document almost automatically. 

To create a new note card, you 
click on a button (sec "Viewing Your 
Notes”), and a scries of data entry and 
dialog boxes lead you ilirough enter- 
ing all the needed information, in- 
cluding author and publisher, page 
numbers, and one or more kenvords. 

When you’re ready to write your 
paper, you select a keyword, and the 
program displays, one at a time, all the 
cards with that keyword. As each card 
appears, a dialog hox asks if you want 
to gather notes from that card. If you 
click on yes, you simply highlight the 
text you want. After you have gone 
through all the cards, SwiftNotes can 
launch your word [processor, open 
your research document, and paste in 
all the highlighted notes. 

Tlie software is aimed at the high- 
school market, but it could be equally 
valuable to college freshmen or 
sophomores. The big advantage for 
anyone unfamiliar with note taking is 
that SwiftNotes holds your hand ev- 
ery step of tlie way. PerscMial Reference 
Catalog (from Delphinus), a similar 
program that 1 reviewed in October, 
accepts data in a single screen, where 
you tab from field to field. SwiftNotes, 
on the other hand, hits a host of mes- 
sages, dialog boxes, and data entry^ 
boxes that oft'er the one-step-at-a-time 
apiiroach that many students need. 

However, for advanced students, 
or adults, there are disadvantages to 
this structured approach. For one 
thing, data entry is slow because you 
have to click your way through all the 
boxes. Another disadvantage is that 
it’s hard to get back to a previous 
dialog box to make a change. 

For these reasons, I recommend 
that experienced researchers buy Per- 
sonal Reference Catalog. Not only does 
it tnake input cjtsier but it also offers 
more citation formats. For students 
who are just getting started, however, 
SwiftNotes provides the necessary 
structure. 

Stylist 1.0 

Most people are able to save time by 
establishing a standard structure for 
their documents. To facilitate this, 
Microsoft Word allows you to save 
style sheets that automatically format 
text. 



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Microsoft Word Style Sheets Explained Stylist 
gives you detailed information about Microsoft 
Word 4.0 style sheets. By clicking on the Sample 
button, you can view a sample of the style. The in- 
sert shows how Microsoft Word describes the 
same style 

The problem with Word’s style 
sheet feature is that it tlescribes each 
style by referring to the style on which 
it is based. So, to learn all the attrihutes 
of a particular style, you have to look 
at, and combine in your mind, two or 
more styles. 

Stylist ($79.95 from SNA) makes it 
easier to understand styles by listing 
all the attrihutes of a style on one sheet 
(see "Microsoft Word Style Sheets 
Fxplained”) and by providing sample 
text in that style. If you u.se style sheets 
often. Stylist can save some confusion. 
If your workday is anything like mine, 
confusion is one thing you don’t need. 

MacLabelPro 1.0 

Creating mailing labels and envelopes 
is an unpopular task. My guess is that 
there is more software for creating 
mailing labels and envelopes than for 
doing anything else. But MachtbelPro 
($99.95 from Avery Commercial Prod- 
ucts Division) deser\'es attention. 

First of all, the MacbibelPro label- 
template menu uses Avery product 
numbers rather than sixes. This saves 




Graphical Control MacLabelPro gives you a great 
deal of control over the look of each label. Text and 
graphics can be resized, redrawn, rotated, even 
nudged up or down. Most functions are accom- 
plished through the tool palette on the left side of 
the screen. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



you from liaving to wait while a har- 
ried clerk at the office-products store 
looks up the number of the label 
you need. 

Second, MacLahelPro’s graphics 
functions rival even some of the early 
Mac dntwing programs. It has all the 
standard drawing tools (rectangle, 
oval, and so on), it includes a snap-to 
grid (called a Magnet), it rotates im- 
ages, and it even lets you specify the 
round-corner diameter. The program 
can also import PICT and FPS images 
or grab an icon. 

The final advantage of Mac- 
HibelPro is that it imports tab-delin- 
eated, comma-delineated (BASIC), or 
SYLK files. Most of the label-and-en- 
velope jiackages I’ve seen impoit only 
one of tho.se formats. 

The only disadvantage of using 
MacLabelPro is that you can’t enter or 
store a data file such as a mailing list. 
You have to use MacliibelPro with a 
spreadsheet, database manager, or 
other application that exports one of 
the formats that MacL:ibelPro accepts. 

Talking Moose 3.0 

Before closing. I'd like to introduce 
you to Talking Moose ($39.95 from 
Baseline Publishing). 

This small animated moose ap- 
pears on screen and teases you in 
.Macintalk when you perform certain 
functions or when the Mac is inactive. 
For example, w'hen you copy, it might 
ask: ‘‘Are you sure that’s worth 
copying?” Or after a pause in activity 
it might ask you to "Turn on the mo- 
dem. I want to make a long-distance 
moose call.” 

Talking Moose has a large reper- 
toire of phrases that it chooses ran- 
domly, and you can add or delete 
phrases. It even translates normal 
spelling into Macintalk phonetics. 

The jokes are witty, the animation 
is cute, and the sound is as good as 
can be expected. Wow long you use 
this utility depends partly on how long 
you can listen to the Mac’s voice. I had 
some fun for the first few days, but 
now it is usually turned off. Still, it’s 
nice to know that if I ever get really 
lonely, I have a ready companion living 
in my Mac. □ 

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NEW PRODUCTS 



Edited by Mary Margaret Lewis 

This section covers Macintosh 
products formally announced 
but not yet evaluated by Mac- 
world. All prices are suggested 
retail. Please call vendors for 
information on availability. 




Building-to-Building 

Photolink 

System that uses infrared 
light to link computers in 
one building to others op- 
erating in an adjacent 
building. Available in Ap- 
pleTalk-LocalTalk for Mac 
networking environments, 
and RS-232 interface for 
terminal-to-host applica- 
tions. Mounts to window 
glass or wall near window 
for users to connect desk- 
top computers in an office 
building or temporary 
trailer to computers oper- 
ating in another structure 
up to 600 feet away. $3990 
per connection for Apple- 
Talk- Loca ITa 1 k p rod uct . 
Photonics, 408/370-3033. 




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CrystalPrint Page Printer 

PostScript-compatible 
page-printer that provides 
RISC-based processing of 



the original CrystalPrint 
Publisher, adds Adobe 
Type 1 font compatibil- 
ity, supports the Mac’s 
smoothing functions, has 
expandable RAM, and 
manual sheet and enve- 
lope feed. $3995. Qume, 
408/942-4000. 




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EtherWorks SCSI and 
EtherWorks II 

EtherWorks SCSI connects 
via the computer’s SCSI 
port, is fully compatible 
with AppleTalk software, 
and can be used with the 
Mac Plus and the Portable. 
EtherWorks II is a NuBus 
board designed for Mac 
compatibility. Supports 
32-bit data transfers and 
has thick and thin Ether- 
net interfaces to allow con- 
nection to thin Ethernet 
RG-58 coax cable or at- 
tachment to an external 
transceiver used to connect 
to thick Ethernet. Ether- 
Works SCSI S499, Ether- 
Works II $399. Technology 
Works, 512/794-8533. 

Extended VGA Monitor 

14-inch, high-resolution 
color monitor that auto- 
matically scans all horizon- 
uil frequencies from 30kHz 
to 37kHz and all vertical 
frequencies between 50Hz 



and 90Hz, to ensure com- 
patibility with most analog 
IBM PC, and compatible, 
display standards and to 
accommodate new stan- 
dards. $899. Packard Bell, 
818/773-4400. 

MacPortable Adapter 

Adapter that enables the 
video signal from the Mac- 
intosh Portable to be used 
for nView projection sys- 
tems. $189. nView Corpo- 
ration, 804/873-1354. 




MacPortable Adapter 



R45 Plus 

44MB removable-cartridge 
drive that comes with a 
two-year warranty on the 
drive mechanism and a 
one-year warranty on the 
cartridge. Runs self-test di- 
agnostics. $1399. Rodime 
Systems, 407/994-5585. 




B45 Plus 

ScuzzyGraph 

External video board that 
plugs in to the SCSI port. 
Provides screen sizes up to 
425 percent larger than the 



Mac Portable’s LCD display 
with resolutions up to 1280 
by 1024 pixels. Has been 
tested with a variety of 
color monitors and can be 
used with any color moni- 
tor with a minimum of 640 
by 480 pixels that is capable 
of accepting digital or ana- 
log signals. $895. Aura Sys- 
tems, 619/438-7730. 

Silentwriter2 Model 90 

Six-pages-per-minute laser 
printer compatible with 
both the Macintosh and 
MS-DOS machines. De- 
signed for use as a stand- 
alone PostScript printer. 
Provides 2MB of RAM, is 
expandable to 4MB, and 
features a Motorola 68000 
microprocessor with a 
built-in l6.7iMHz Adobe 
PostScript interpreter. 
$2495. NEC Technologies, 
508/264-8000. 




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Static RAM Board 

3MB static RAM board for 
the Mac Portable that in- 
creases the Portable’s 
memory to 4MB for mem- 
ory-intensive applications. 
Uses true low-power high- 
speed static RAM for mini- 
mal current draw, and oc- 
cupies the RAM expansion 
slot in the machine. $355. 
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NEW PRODUCTS 




Static RAM Board 



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SuperMatch 

Color matching system to 
ensure color fidelity be- 
tween Mac graphics moni- 
tors, scanners, and output 
devices. Allows Mac color 
graphics users to precisely 
match spot color and con- 
tinuous-tone color images 
on displays and input/out- 
put devices. $695. Super- 
Mac, 408/245-2202. 

T1200 DAT Drive 

1.3-gigaby^e digital audio- 
tape drive that provides 
unattended backups, and 




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ships with Soft Backup 
network-backup software. 
Users can preprogram 
system to back up entire 
disk or volume, or speci- 
fic files only. Designed 
on. industry standard 
DDS recording format. 
$2997. Mirror Technolo- 
gies, 612/633-4450. 

TelePort 

Portable modem that con- 
nects to the ADB. Unit fits 
in the palm of your hand, 
mounts on a wall or the 
side of a desk, and draws 
its power from the Mac. 
Uses MNP Class 5 data 
compression to guarantee 
error-free communication 



at rates of up to 4800 bps, 
and complies with Bell 103, 
212, 212A, and the V.22 and 
V.22bis standards. $149.95. 
Global Village Communi- 
cation. 415/329-0700. 

Typist 

300-dpi hand-held scanner 
with 5-inch scan width. 
Scans 2 inches per second 
and inputs directly into 
application. Device uses 
Caere’s AnyFont technol- 
ogy, scans horizontally or 
vertically, stitches auto- 
matically, and has auto- 
matic contrast settings. 
Comes with image-capture 
software. $695. Caere Cor- 
poration, 408/395-7000. 




Typist 



Video Explorer 

Macintosh board that en- 
ables the user to digital- 
ly combine live video 
sources, computer graph- 
ics, and computer anima- 
tion in real time. Includes 
special effects such as 
fades, wipes, dissolves, 
keying on chrominance 
and luminance signals, and 
antialiased titles and 
graphics. Under $10,000. 
Intelligent Resources, 
708/705-9388. 

VLF Monochrome and 
Grayscale Monitors 

Versions of Sigma’s 15- 
inch PageView, 19-inch 
L-Vicw, and 21-inch Silver- 
View monitors that meet 
new standards for ex- 
t re me ly- 1 o w- f req u e n cy 
emissions expected to be 
set in Sweden next year. 
$1499 to $3199, depending 
on model. Sigma Designs, 
415/770-0100. 



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full line of Macintosh-compatible 
printer and scanner choices. 

For photographic-quality scan- 
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Plus scanner. Combine that 
with one of HP’s high-quality 
printers. The DeskWriter, the 
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BannerMania 

Softv^^are for creating ban- 
ners. Bends and shapes 
text and reduces jaggies. 
Comes with 50 ready-made 
banners, 34 special effects, 
27 shapes, 19 fonts. Com- 
patible with Adobe Type 1 
fonts. 1MB min. memory. 
$59.95. Broderbund Soft- 
ware, 415/492-3200. 

ClickChange 

Utility for personalizing 
Mac’s look-and-feel by cus- 
tomizing buttons, scroll 
bars, windows, and colors. 
Cursors can be colorized, 
animated, and zoom-ed- 
ited, and beep sounds 
changed. 1MB min. mem- 
ory. $79.95. Dubl-Click 
Software, 818/700-9525. 

CommLink/Plus 

Newspaper- publishing 
software that connects, via 



communications ports, 
most newspaper publish- 
ing systems with the Mac. 
Enables newspapers to 
move text to the Mac for 
pagination or other pro- 
cessing, and to translate 
standard typesetting for- 
mats to QuarkXPress style 
tags. 1MB min. memory. 
$695. Baseview Products, 
313/426-5751. 

Darwin's Dilemma 

Color strategy game loosely 
based on the theories of 
evolution. Player moves 
through levels of the game 
by colliding and merging 
icons that represent in- 




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creasingly complex life 
forms. Each lev^el involves 
new creatures and a puzzle 
to solve. Varying levels of 
difficulty and limitless 
situations keep the game 
play fresh. 512Kmin. mem- 
ory. $49.95. Inline Design, 
203/364-0063. 

DataPrism 

Mac front-end query^ tool 
for SQL databases that can 
access the Oracle database 
server and all servers sup- 
ported by Apple’s Data Ac- 
cess Language. Provides 
full query^ capabilities with- 
out requiring extensive 
knowledge of SQL. 1MB 
min. memory. $435. Brio 
Technology, 415/961-4110. 

DesignCAD 

CAD program describes 
geometry by means of a 
single, mathematical para- 
metric representation. 
Uses unified mathematics 




to ensure consistency and 
accuracy, concurrently 
allowing wire-frame, sur- 
face, and solid-geometry 
integration within a single 
environment. 1MB min. 
memory. $699. Design- 
CAD, 918/825-4848. 

DNA Parrot DP 100 

Software that enables mo- 
lecular biologists to enter 
data about DNA sequences 
into a Mac database from 
an autoradiograph of a 
DNA sequencing gel. The 
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can be confirmed, and the 
user can control the read- 
ing without looking at 
the screen. 1MB min. 
memory. $749. T&T Re- 
search, 416/252-4789. 

Docu-Mentor 

Electronic notepad that 
helps organize personal 
information such as lists, 
notes, outlines, names, 
numbers, and appoint- 
ments. Allows free-form 
input of text and contains 
a menu-driven retrieval 
system. 1MB min. mem- 
ory. $100. 3-Soft Company, 
319/337-8903. 

EasyServer 

Stand-alone file server that 
comes configured for Lo- 
calTalk and a SCSI port, 
and that can communicate 
with CD ROMs, removable 
drives, WORM drives, or 
any Mac-compatible stor- 
age device that can be 



shared on a network. Ap- 
pleShare-compatible with 
full support for file sharing 
and multiuser databases. 
Ethernet and token ring 
options available. 1MB min. 
memory. $1995. ShirtPock- 
et Software, 602/966-7667. 

EndNote Plus 

Bibliographic software that 
conducts one-step Boolean 
searches; supports sorting, 
printing from within the 
application, and searching 
for duplicate records; con- 
tains QuickFind feature; 
and has a system designed 
to handle different stan- 
dards of journal abbrevia- 
tions. 512KE min. memory, 
$249. Niles and Associates, 
415/655-6666. 

ESR 

Anisotropic electron-spin- 
resonance program en- 
ables the user to simulate 
both powder and solution 



ESR spectra. Supports all 
naturally occurring iso- 
topes for the first 103 ele- 
ments, and permits the 
user to define line shape, 
number of integration 
steps in the solid-angle 
surface integration, nuclear 
abundances, spectn^me- 
ter frequency, line width, 
spectral width, and spectral 
resolution. Can simulate up 
to 24 nuclear spin sets. 
512KE min. memor\’. $225 
for 512KE or later Mac; 
$295 for other versions. 
Calleo Scientific Software 
Publishers, 303/493-8573. 

Financial Learning System 

Interactive self-study pro- 
gram that incorporates a 
computer-based business 
emulation to provide an 
understanding of financial 
terminology, financial re- 
ports, profitability, cash 
flow, asset management, 
financing instruments, and 



asset valuation. Combines a 
four-part workbook, case 
studies, exercises, and re- 
view questions. 512K min. 
memoiy $299.95. Strategic 
Management Group, 215/ 
387-4000, 800/445-7089. 

HyperGraph 

Utility for HyperCard that 
lets users add charts and 
graphs to stacks. Has op- 
tions to control gniph size 
and limits, axis and grid 
types, and tixis and graph 
labels. Uses numeric data 
and an option list as input 
for creating a graph. 1MB 
min. memory. $79. Boo- 
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HyperSnoop 

HyperCard programmer’s 
tool that can be used to 
examine any stack and to 
produce and store a listing 
and analysis for all or any 
parts of the stack. 1MB 
min. memory. $28. Supe- 
rior Process Engineering, 
619/752-5843. 

InfoDesk Series 

Software-based reference 
packages that include the 
electronic edition of The 
Random House Encyclo- 
pedia and Inside Informa- 
tion. Users can swap refer- 
ence databases from within 
the program being used. 
1MB min. memor>^ SI 19. 
Microlytics, 716/248-9150. 

ithink 

Visual-thinking tool de- 
signed to improve people’s 
ability to understand the 
way complex organizations 
and the processes operat- 



ing within them work. 
Graphical interface enables 
the user to define the un- 
derlying interdependent 
relationships in a business, 
through building animated 
models that show fluctua- 
tions, surges, and declines 
defined by various types of 
plots available in the Graph 
Pad. 1MB min. memory. 
$450. High Performance 
Systems, 603/543-9636. 

MacDialog Editor 

Developer’s tool for creat- 
ing interfaces for Macin- 
tosh-based Prolog appli- 
cations. The editor enables 
programmers to draw dia- 
log boxes on the screen; 
generates the necessary 
Prolog code to implement 
the dialog boxes, which 
can be pasted into a 
MacProlog application. 
1MB min. memory. $325. 
Quintus Computer Sys- 
tems, 415/965-7700. 



Macintosh Foot-Inch 
Calculator 

Fool-and-inch calculator 
program that makes a 
scrolling, printable tape of 
operations. Has functions 
to perform conversions, 
brick coursing, areas, 
slope, and circumference 
calculations. 1MB min. 
memor>'. 121. CALC, 1841 
Columbia Rd. NW, #203, 
Washington, DC 20009. 

MacLabelPro 

Label-publishing software 
that merges existing files 
with graphics and text ele- 
ments to produce labels for 
mailing and other applica- 
tions. Provides a tool pal- 
ette with more than 20 
items for creating, editing, 
and manipulating design 
objects, and comes with a 
libraiy of clip art designed 
for the program. 1MB min. 
memory. $99.95. Avery, 
818/915-3851. 




MacLabelPro 
MacRoad DTM 



Interactive application for 
the geometric design of 
roads on the Mac. Incor- 
porates terrain modeling 
and contouring features. 
Creates a terrain model 
using a triangulation of 
survey points in which the 
user can enter feature 
strings and change the tri- 
angulation on the screen 
to ensure that the natural 
surface is correctly mod- 
eled. Draws smooth con- 
tours at any inteml. 1MB 
min. memor\'. $4000. Vec- 
tor System/M icroConcepis, 
219/478-8088. 

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Maplafo for Macintosh 

Desktop-mapping product 
that has built-in relational- 
database engine with SQL 
querying capabilities. Pro- 
vides graphical and visual 
representations of geo- 
graphic data and provides 
two levels of querying for 
nontechnical and for ad- 
vanced users. Results can 
be viewed in mapping, 
graphical, and browse 
mtxies. 1MB min. memory. 
$695. Mapinfo, 518/274- 
8673, 800/327-8627. 

The Mathematics Teacher's 
Workstation 

Educational software for 
math teachers who teach 
/unior high, high school, 
and college mathematics 
courses. Teachers can use 
drawing tools to design 
geometric constructions; 
display text; and graph 
rectangular, polar, or 
parametric coordinates. 



Graphics from other appli- 
cations may be imported. 
1MB min. memory. 
5149.95. Sterling Swift 
Software, 5 12/280-243 1 . 

Muse 

Language-driven daia-ana- 
lysis software that is de- 
signed to convert raw data 
into finished analysis using 
a natural-language com- 
mand interface. Enables 
users to simultaneously 
reference, manipulate, re- 
format, calculate, and visu- 
alize large data sets. Im- 
ports data in a variety of 
forms and familiar formats, 
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imported into the pro- 
gram’s Workbooks. 2MB 
min. memory'. $695. Occam 
Research, 617/923-3545. 

MusiCard Maker 

Hypei*Card stack for devel- 
oping music flash cards. 
Can produce three differ- 
ent sizes of staves and cor- 
responding symbols; a va- 
riety of clefs including 
treble, tenor, viola, bass, 
and grand Staff. Has the 
ability to notate fingerings 
or bowings and comes with 
an interactive owner ’s- 
manual stack that contains 
notating shortcuts. Print 
option lets you produce 
cards in a nuinber of sizes 
or formats for different 
uses. 2MB min. memory. 
549.95. LiitleNote Software, 
408/978-0473. 

Pastel Manager 

Personal information- 
management tool designed 



to organize and integrate 
addresses, notes, tasks for 
the day, and other bits of 
personal information. In- 
formation is stored in units 
lal:>eled items, such as Cal- 
endar Item and Note Item, 
which are stored in single, 
flat flies. Users can view the 
information in one of six 
modes: search, edit, desk- 
top, month, week, or day. 
1MB min. memory. $295. 
Pastel Development Cor- 
poration, 212/431-3421. 




PerlectPairs 

Six packages of automati- 
cally prekerned screen 
fonts for use with Aldus 



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The HP ScanJet Plus 
scanner provides 8-bit 
photographic-quality 
scanning. 

That means 256 shades of gray for 
the hottest-looking output from 
your Mac. And it’s so easy, too. 

At the click of a mouse, you can 
get negative or mirror images, as 
well as scaling in 1 % increments 
from 4-200%. All for $2,190,* about 
what you would expect to pay 
for a 4-bit scanner. 

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PageMaker 4.0 and Aldus 
FreeHand. Fonts work au- 
tomatically and use Post- 
Script printer fonts. 1MB 
min. memor\' $24.95 per 
package plus $2 s/h. Per- 
fectPairs, 206/822-4010, 
800/544-9543. 

P/Net 

Peripheral-sharing device 
that can be used on Mac, 
IBM PC and compatibles, 
and mixed-platform net- 
works. Device is openiting- 
system independent. En- 
ables you to share printers, 
modems, and other RS 232 
or standard parallel con- 
nections. 1MB min. mem- 




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ory. $1695. Practical Pe- 
ripherals, 818/706-0333. 

Quotemaster Plus/Mac 

Literary-quote retrieval 
system. Simplifies process 
of finding literary quota- 
tions; lets you access ma- 
terial with a hierarchical- 
search module, or by en- 
tering any combination of 
subject, author, or time 
period. Contains over 3000 
quotes on 800 topics by 
950 authors. Expandable 
with additional databases 
of quotations on humor, 
success, motivation, as well 
as contemporary quotes. 
1MB min. memory. Basic 
system $89; each additional 
database $25. PennComp, 
713/669-0965. 

QuoteMaster Real Time 
Stock Monitoring System 

Real-time stock market- 
monitoring system that 
uses satellite-based receiv- 







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ers. System has complete 
background monitoring of 
all securities, can run 24 
hours a day to monitor up 
to 1250 securities, and is 
Multi Finder-compatible. 
Automatically retrieves and 
displays headline news. 
1MB min. memory. $395. 
Strategic Planning Systems, 
800/488-5898. 

The Santa Fe Collection 

Clip art collection of more 
than 600 Native American 
and Southwest images and 
140 borders on eight 800K 
floppy disks. Illustrations 
are stored in bitmapped 
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all paint, draw, text pro- 
cessing, or page-layout ap- 
plications. Comes bundled 
with Artisto-f- desk acces- 
sory that enables users to 
copy and paste collection 
images into documents 
from within the applica- 
tion. 1MB min. memory. 
$79.95. RT Computer 
Graphics, 505/982-1562, 
800/245-7824. 

Superscript 

Application designed for 
film and television script 
supervisors. Contains edit- 
able fields for scene num- 
ber, description, camera 
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and sound info, takes 
within takes, time code, 
shot length, and com- 
ments. Includes a built-in 
stopwatch, multiple takes, 
forms, and a personalized 
top sheet. Automatically 
enters vSMPTn Time Code 
on every take. 1M13 min. 
memory. $249. Power- 
Training, 213/370-4793. 

TechWords 

Utility that provides a list of 
technical words that can be 
merged into the spelling 
checker of most word pro- 
cessors. Contains over 
40,000 terms used in aero- 
nautical, chemical, civil, 
electrical, industrial, and 
mechanical engineering. 
Also includes terms from 
math and physics, as well 
as computer, life, space, 
planetary, and earth sci- 
ences. 512K min. memoiy 
$79. Geocomp Corpora- 
tion, 508/369-8304. 



Topic 

Document-retrieval system 
designed to give corporate 
end users a comprehensive 
text-search and -retrieval 
system in a networked 
computing environment. 
System is based on a client- 
server architecture and 
uses a distributed process- 
ing model of networked 
computing to take advan- 
tage of all processors in 
the network. Users can ac- 
cess images, annotations, 
documents, news wires, 
and E-mail. 1MB min. 
memory. Retrieval Client 
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server configurations. Ver- 
ity, 415/960-7600. 

Total Recall 

Hard-drive-backup pro- 
gram for the Mac that in- 
cludes a buffering feature 
that determines the best 
buffering method for a 
user’s individual hardware 
configuration and enables 
the program to achieve a 
performance throughput 
of 38MB per minute when 
archiving to a hard drive 
and 6MB per minute for 
tape backups. 1MB min. 
memory. $99.95. Centa 
Systems, 714/693-8825. 

vPower 

Parametric design package. 
User can find variables of 
dimensions of objects in 
CAD drawings, and change 
the variables and place 
them in formulas to see 
how the design behaves 
under different conditions. 




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Compatible with Claris 
CAD, VersaCAD, and any 
DXF file. 1MB min. mem- 
ory'. $799. Vision Software, 
518/271-5118. 



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Executive planner provides 
dates, locations, and con- 
tact information for more 
than 200 high-technology 
trade shows, analyst con- 
ferences, key vertical-mar- 
ket gatherings, and special 
events taking place each 
year. Includes domestic 
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all high-tech areas, from 
semiconductors to super- 
comput-ers, the nuclear 
industry, and consumer 
electronics. $24.95 plus 
$1.50 s/h. Tech Trade 
Events, 415/428-2439. 







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Computer Christinas Cards 

Holiday greeting cards 
with a personal-computer 
theme. Sold in boxes of 12. 
$15 per dozen. Palm Press, 
415/486-0502. 




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Deskette 

Disk-storage drawers for 
3 '/ 2 -inch floppy disks that 
come in single-drawer to 
l6-drawer models with 
capacity to hold from 72 
to 1 152 floppy disks. Mod- 
eled in acrylic and availa- 
ble in clear; smoke; yel- 
low; or neon pink, blue, 
or green. $14.95-$ 129.95. 
R&R Computer Solutions, 
714/996-6545. 

Glare/Guard Traveler 

Glare-guard screen for 
laptop displays. Designed 
to filter out 99 percent of 
glare. Made of durable, 
optically coated amber or 



gniy safety glass. $149.50. 
OcLl, 707/545-6440. 




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Hanging Disk RIer 

Letter- and legal-size hang- 
ing disk filers that hold up 
to six 3 '/ 2 -inch disks and 
can hang in a filing cabinet. 
Color-coded in red, green, 
yellow, blue; made of 8- 
gauge, static-resistant plas- 
tic, and have optional clip- 
on label tabs. 1 to 5 boxes 
$995 each; volume dis- 
counts available. Eaton and 
Associates, 415/550-0325. 

Hard Shell Mac Case 

Hard-shell canwing case for 



Macintosh 128K through 
Macintosh SE/30 models. 
Case is lockable; weighs 
6 pounds; and has room 
to store cables, power 
cords, mouse, keyboard, 
and hard drive or small 
portable printer. $129.95. 
BCM, 800/432-5211. 

Neon Ultimate Carrying 
Case 

Neon-accented Macintosh 
carr>4ng cases that contain 
extra outside pockets with 
room for manuals, mouse 
pads, disks, and a note- 
book. Include a padded 
pocket for mouse, cords, 
and keyboard. Macintosh is 
protected by high-density 
foam and water-resistant 
Cordura shell. $139.95. I/O 
Design, 215/524-7277. 

Organizer Jr. 

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puts laser-quality printing 
right at your fingertips. 

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easily fits on your desk and in your 
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Why DAs beep, uncovering Trash, iviaking ruled unes flow with 

TEXT, AND MORE 




BY LON POOLE 

s a reader pointed out in last April’s col- 
umn, an ImageWriter II normally prints Faster quality uni- 
directionally, but you can force bidirectional printing of Faster 
quality by pressing Caps Ix)ck-Shift-Option while clicking OK in 



the Print dialog box. In August I 
described a method for canceling 
forced bidirectional printing: re- 
place the ImageWriter file in your 
System Folder. 

However, a simpler and more 
convenient technique for returning to 
unidirectional printing was suggested 
by Joseph A. Amarante of North Ha- 
ven, Connecticut (and several other 
readers). Just press the 3^ key while 
clicking OK in the Print dialog box. 

Bidirectional printing speeds up 
Faster quality but may aLso noticeably 
degrade print quality. 

Mac Literacy 

Sure the Mac interface is intuitive, but 
it isn’t self-evident. The Little Mac 
Book by Robin Williams, answers the 
little questions every beginning 
Macintosh user has. It covers the 
stripped-down basics you need to 
know to operate a Mac, and nothing 
more. The book is published by 
Peachpit Press of Berkeley, California. 
Read it even if you never read a 
manual. 

Williams’s other new book from 
the same publisher, The Mac Is Not a 
Typewriter, is w^ell worth reading, 
unless you use the Courier font ex- 
clusively. In 72 pages Williams ex- 
plains what you have to unlearn from 
Typing 101 to give your output a 
more typeset look. If you pay atten- 
tion to typographic details, your text 



will look better — especially at 300 
dots per inch or higher resolution. 

Fixing Paragraph Spacing in Word 

Microsoft has finally fixed a long- 
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This led to uneven margins at the top 
of the page. (You set the amount of 
extra space using the Space Before 
option of the Paragraph command.) 
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space when it occurs at the top of a 
page following an automatic page 
break. If later revisions to the docu- 
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Word 4.0B inserts the specified space 
before the paragraph. Other 4.0B im- 
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■ Allowing fractional-width characters 
on an ImageWriter I and II (for com- 
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■ Mac llci compatibility 

■ Text and color display on large 
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■ Dialog-box display of drop-down 
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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 




Where Have All the DAs Gone? 

Q I recently upgraded my Mac Plus 
to 2.5MB of RAM so that I could 
start using MultiFinder regularly. Un- 
fortunately, when .MultiFinder is ac- 
tive my desk acce.ssories aren’t usable. 
Choosing one from the Apple menu 
results only in a beep. This applies to 
all D.As — including basic ones like the 
Control Panel — even when no appli- 
cations other than the Finder are 
open and 2076K of RAM is free. Can 
you help me get my DAs back? 

Bruce K. Ferguson 
Athens, Georgia 

A You need to copy the DA Handler 
from your System Tools disk into 
the System Folder on each of your 
start-up disks. .MultiFinder uses DA 
Handler to open desk accessories in 
the memoty allocated to system soft- 
ware. (MultiFinder automatically 
increases the amount of memory al- 
located to system softw’are to accom- 
modate each additional desk acces- 
sory you open.) Whenever Multi- 
Finder is not active, DA Handler is not 
used. Instead, DAs share the memoty 
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Control 


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Maclerminal 




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SmartCom II 






5C-comma 




White Knight* 


Option 


' 


Shift-Delete 


3e-Shift-Delete 



• Requires setup as described in the program's manual. 



allocated to the application that is 
currently open. 

You can bypass the DA Handler 
and open a desk accessory in the ac- 
tive application program’s memory by 
pressing the Option key while choos- 
ing the desk accessory from the Apple 
menu. If you’re using MultiFinder, 
don't press the Option key until after 
you pull down the Apple menu. With 
MultiFinder active, pressing the Op- 
tion key as you click the Apple menu 
suppresses all desk accessories from 
the menu and brings the list of cur- 
rently open applications to the top of 
the menu, where they’re easier to 
choose from. 



When emulating a 
VT102 or VT100 ter- 
minal with a Mac 
Plus, you can usually 
simulate the missing 
Control, Break, and 
Escape keys by sub- 
stituting keys that 
the Mac Plus key- 
board does have. 

Concealed Trash 

a With MultiFinder active, the Trash 
Can and other desktop icons are 
often hidden by windows. To throw 
away a file, you must shrink the win- 
dows, go to the Finder to trash the 
file, then enlarge the windows. What 
happened to user friendliness? Why 
does this behavior continue with each 
new release of system software? 

Bringing the desktop icons to the 
top should be simple enough. As an 
alternative, a menu item called Trash 
It could be added. Is there some trick 
for doing this with ResEdit? 

Douglas Ivers 
Cary, North Carolina 



A System 7.0 will let you hide layers 
so that, for example, you can work 
in the Finder without interference 
from the windows of other open (but 
inactive) programs. In the meantime, 
why don’t you leave the Trash icon 
open? Then w'hen you switch to the 
Finder, the Trash window will come 
to the top along with other Finder 
windows, even if the Trash icon is 
covered. Dragging to the Trash win- 
dow works just as well as dragging to 
the Trash icon. I like your idea of a 
Trash It command. 

Control Emulation 

Q I use a Macintosh Plus on a net- 
work to emulate a VTIOO termi- 
nal. Is it possible to generate a Con- 
trol command with the Macintosh 
Plus keyboard? 

Jacobus van der Maas 
I.,ausanne, Switzerland 

A Because the Mac Plus keyboard 
doesn’t have the Control, Escape, 
and Break keys you need for VTIOO 
emulation, most communications 






programs recognize alternate keys as 
substitutes for the missing keys. The 
table “Key Substitution” tells you 
which key to press. 

Tetris Touch 

TIP: Have you hit the w^all in your 
Tetris score? The following tip gave 
me a new high score the very first 
time I tried it. Choose Control Panel 
from the Apple menu; click on the 
Keyboard icon. Make a note of the 
current settings and then set the Key 
Repeat Rate to Fast and Delay Until 
Repeat to Short. 

Because Tetris uses keyboard in- 
put, a faster repeat rate lets you shift 
falling pieces from side to side faster 
(using the 4 and 6 keys on the key- 
pad), which is critical in higher stages 
of the game. You can also rotate 
pieces faster (using the 5 key on the 
keypad). Be careful, though, not to 
rest your finger on the 2 key, which 
causes pieces to drop straight down. 
You can quickly build up an awkward 
stack of pieces if you rest on that key 
a litde too long. 

Be sure to restore your normal 
keyboard settings before returning to 
more sedate applications. 

Greg Mintner 

Canyon Country, California 

Directory Scroll 

TIP: When you need to scroll the list 
of files in a directory dialog box of an 
Open or Save command, you don’t 
have to use the scroll bar. You can 
also click anywhere on the list of files 
and drag the pointer above or below 
the file list area. 

Clay Olson 

Santa Cruz, California 

Reclaiming High-Density Disks 

TIP: I recently discovered that once 
a high-density (1.4MB) floppy has 
been formatted for DOS or UNIX file 
systems, the Macintosh SuperDrive 
will not format the disk for a Macin- 
tosh. To get around this problem, I 
use the Quick Copy program that 
comes with SUM II. 1 just open Quick 
Copy and select the Initialize Before 
Copying and Copy All Sectors options. 

I then take a high-density floppy disk 
that has already been initialized for 
the Macintosh and, following the 
normal Quick Copy procedures, copy 



it onto the disk that was formatted for 
DOS or UNIX. Presto! In a few seconds 
I have a reclaimed Macintosh high- 
density floppy. 

Ken Kirksey 
Auburn, Alabama 



Column-Width Adjustment 

TIP: You can adjust the width of a 
column in a Microsoft Word table by 
dragging as you do in a spreadsheet. 
Start by selecting the rows that con- 
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BLEND EFFECTS 

Imaginative use of Aldus FreeHand’s Blend command (Special submenu of 
the Element menu) produces some interesting special effecLs. Two effects, 
submitted by R. Born of Analieim, California, are illustrated below. 



Geometric Shapes 




Use the Line tool to draw two lines (of any color or 
weight) at some acute angle. The lines must share a 
common point (B). Also, you must draw one line 
toward that point (A to B) and the other line away 
from that point (B to C). 

Select each line and ungroup it using the Ungroup 
command (Element menu). Then select point A 
of the diagonal line, hold down the Shift key, and 
select point B of the horizontal line. 

Produce an attractive geometric shape by setting 
the Blend command’s Number of Steps option to 
40 or higher. If the two starting lines are different 
colors or weights, the Blend command makes a 
smooth transition between them. 



Perspective Grid 




Draw a line at a shallow angle and clone it. Using the 
Reflection tool, press Option while clicking the clone. 
In the dialog box that appears, set the Horizontal and 
Center of Selection options. Click OK to flip the clone. 
Drag the flipped clone straight down. 

Select each line and ungroup it using the Ungroup 
command (Element menu). Then select an end point 
on the first line, hold down the Shift key, and select 
an end point on the other line (on the same end of 
the line as the first end point you selected). 

Generate the grid lines by setting the Blend com- 
mand’s Number of Steps option (the more steps, 
the finer the blend). Ungroup the blend lines, select 
all lines, and use the Group command (Element 
menu) to group them. 

Clone the group of lines and use the Reflection 
tool to flip the clone across the vertical axis. The 
result is a mathematically perfect perspective 
grid with unseen vanishing points off the page. 



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TABLE RULER If you click the Scale icon in Microsoft Word's formatting rulor, you seo T-shapod col- 
umn markers that you can drag to change the width of columns in the selected portion of a Word table. 
If the formatting ruler turns gray, as shown here, it means the selected rows have different formats. 
You can still adjust their column spacing by dragging the T-shaped markers, however. 



lain the columns whose width you 
want to cliangc. You can select just 
one column — any column — from 
those rows. Show the formatting ruler 
by pressing 5€-R. Next, click the comb- 
shaped Scale icon at the right end of 
the formatting ruler (second from the 
right if youVe using short menus). 
'T-shaped column mai kers appear on 
the ruler. Drag those markers as you 
would indents or tabs, and see the 



column widths change as you do it 
(see “Table Ruler”). 

Don Beck 

Stow, Massachusetts 

Flowing Rules with Text 

TIP: Those who use ReadySetGo or 
DesignSiudio can make rules that flow 
with their text (PageMaker has a spe- 
cial feature for this). To create a 
floating rule in a text block, create a 



blank line where you want the rule to 
begin, and move the insertion ix)int 
to the beginning of that line. Set the 
font to Zapf Dingbats and the point 
size to the rule thickness you need. 
Set the tracking to 0.5 em using 
ReadySeiGo’s Track command (For- 
mat menu) or to 0.25 cm using 
DesignStudio’s Horiz Spacing com- 
mand (Formal menu). If you set the 
size smaller than 7 points, you may 
want to change the greeking thresh- 
old using the Preferences command 
(Special menu in ReadySetGo, and 
Document menu in DesignStudio) so 
the rule isn’t greeked on the screen. 

You create the rule by repeatedly 
typing a lowercase N, which in the 
Zapf Dingbat font generates a filled- 
box symbol (■). At small point sizes, 
typing a lengthy rule can be tiresome. 
To speed u[^ the process, type a por- 
tion of the rule, select it, click at the 
end of the rule, and paste, paste, 
paste. You can delete any excess. You 
now have a rule that flows with your 
text. 1 have output this kind of rule at 
2540 dpi, and it prints solidly. With 




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need to experiment to gee the thick- 
ness to match a tool-drawn mle ex- 
actly. For e.xample, obtaining a 1 -point 
rule requires setting the point size of 
the dingbat to 1.35. 

Jeff Negran 

New Brunswick, New Jersey 

Disappearing Ink 

TIP: I was frustrated by text not 
printing below some of the Super- 
Paint 2.0 graphics I had pasted into 
my Microsoft Word documents. The 
mystery was solved when my friend 
Charlyn and I realized that the last text 
I had put in the draw layer of each 
troublesome SuperPaint graphic was 
white text. She had a similar problem 
with gray text. After encountering 
white or gray text in a SuperPaint 
graphic, the printer is not reset to 
black text until the next page. 

To avoid this problem, make sure 
you type all nonblack text in a Super- 
Paint drawing before typing black text. 
To fix a finished drawing, either type 
some new black text in an empty 
white area and cover it with a white 
box (with white lines) or type a black 
letter on top of a black area. You can 
also delete an entire block of black 
text (select it with the pointer tool, 
not the text tool) and type a replace- 
ment text block. Simply deleting and 
retyping a word or two of black text 
will not fix the problem. 

Shirley Kehr 

Silverado, California 



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HOW TO 



Getting Started with Networks 

A NETWORK LETS YOU SHARE INFORMATION AND EXPENSIVE ADD-ONS. 

Here’s how to set one up and watch it grow. 




BY JIM HEID 



you use two or more Macs, chances are you 



can benefit from connecting them to each other to form a net- 



work. Wait! Don’t turn the page. It’s true that networking has its 
technicalities — bandwidths and bridges, twisted pairs and to- 



|Tologies — blit even if you are new to 
the Macintosh you can set up a 
small network without immersing 
yourself in them. Small-scale Mac 
networking can be surprisingly easy 
and economical. 

Wliat’s to gain? For one thing, your 
Macs can share an expensive add-on 
such as a laser printer or hard drive 
(see “Hardware You Can Share”). It’s 
easier to buy a big-ticket item when 
you know that all your Macs will be 
able to share it. 

Beyond sharing hardware, you 
can share information and ideas. 
Using file server software, you can 
store in one place files everyone 
needs to access — client databases, 
product fact sheets, downloadable 
laser printer fonts, or boilerplate 
templates for frequently produced 
documents. Using electronic mail 
software, you can send messages and 
files to co-workers. And with multi- 
user database software, ever)'onc can 
access the same database file at once, 
eliminating the need to store a sepa- 
rate copy on each user’s machine — 
and fretting over whose version is the 
latest. 

Many people are intimidated by- 
networking not only because of the 
jargon that surrounds it, but also be- 
cause it provides so many sharing 
options. The best way to conquer that 
latter fear is to staa small and add new 
capabilities as you need them — and 
as you master those you already have. 



This month, I present a road map you 
might want to follow in your journey 
to a networked office. Along the way, 
I’ll examine networking’s benefits and 
look at some products. “Networking 
for the No\dce” (in this issue) provides 
more details on the steps involved in 
setting up a network. 

Phase 1: Sharing a Printer 

At its simplest level, Macintosh net- 
working means sharing a PostScript- 
based printer such as Apple’s 
LaserWriter IINT, IINTX, Personal 
LaserWriter NT, or any of the other 
dozen or so Mac<ompatible PostScript 
printers (see “Page Printers Revisited," 
Macworld, October 1990). Non-Post- 
Script laser printers, such as Apple’s 
Personal LaserWriter SC and GCC 
Technologies’ PLP II and PLP IIS, 
cannot be shared on a network be- 
cause they attach to the Mac’s SCSI 
connector, which isn’t designed with 
sharing in mind, and because they lack 
the ability to respond to numerous 
machines. 

Sharing a PostScript printer is a 
breeze because all you need are ca- 
bles that interconnect the Macs and 
the printer. You don’t need to pur- 
chase any special networking soft- 
ware; Apple’s LaserWriter printer 
driver files, included with the Mac, 
contain all the smarts needed to com- 
municate with any Mac-compatible 
PostScript printer. Similarly, all Post- 
Script printers contain built-in print 




server software that allows them to 
listen for numerous machines and 
handle print jobs on a first-come-first- 
served basis. In short, the Macintosh 
and the printer already know how to 
talk with each other — your job is to 
add the lines of communication. 

Those lines can take a few forms. 
If you want the Apple brand name, 
endow each Mac and printer with a 
$75 Ix)calTalk Connector Kit, which 
includes a 6-foot length of LocalTalk 
cable and a small connector box that 
plugs into a Mac’s rear-panel printer 
connector or into the printer itself. 
You also get a small connector called 
a cable extender, used for attaching 
two cables to each other. If you need 
longer cable lengths — perhaps to 
reach a Mac in another room — Apple 
offers a 30-foot LocalTalk cable for 
$75, and a 75-foot cable for $125- See 
“Networking for the Novice” for more 
details on cabling, including informa- 
tion on less-expensive alternatives to 
Apple’s LocalTalk kits. 

After you unite the machines, you 
need to configure each Macintosh for 
network printing. First, be sure the 
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HARDWARE YOU 
CAN SHARE 

S haring hardware doesn't 
mean just hard drives 
and laser printers. Here's 
a sampling of the other types 
of hardware you can share on 
a LocaiTalk network. 

■ fmageWriters Using Apple's 
$139 ImageWriter ll/LQ Local- 
Talk Option board, you can 
share an ImageWriter II or LQ. 
■ Telephone modems Don't 
buy a modem for everyone on 
staff; buy a network modem 
such as Hayes's $499 Smart- 
modem 2400M or Shiva's $599 
NetModem V2400 or $599 high- 
speed NetModem V.32. 

■ Fax modems You can share 
a fax modem such as Apple's 
now-discontinued AppleFax 
or Orchid Technology's $599 
OrchidFax by using Solutions' 
$395 FaxGate Plus software 
with the $395 Microsoft Mail or 
CE's QuickMail ($189.95 for 1 
user, $339.95 for 5, $499.95 for 
10, $2299.95 for 50). 

■ Serial devices With Shiva's 
$399 NetSeriai or Solana Elec- 
tronics' $695 C-Server, you can 
put virtually any serial device — 
modem, pen plotter, daisy 
wheel printer — on a network. 

■ Alternative storage devices 
You can share tape backup 
drives, erasable optical drives, 
and removable drives such as 
Bernoulli boxes and Syquest 
drives. You can even share CD 
ROMs via an AppleShare serv- 
er, provided the server's hard 
disk has enough free space to 
keep track of the CD ROM's 
vast number of files. 



laser printer is warmed up (wait until 
it prints its start-up page). Next, u.se 
each Mac’s Chooser desk accessoiy to 
turn on AppleTalk and select the 
I^serWriter printer driver icon. (If you 
don’t see this icon, you need to copy 
it and the file named LaserPrep either 
from the Mac’s system disks or from 
the disks that accompany the printer. 
Copy the files to the System Folder on 



the Mac’s starl-up disk.) 

Before closing the Chooser, type 
a name in its User Name text box. Use 
the name of the person w'ho uses that 
Mac, or a name that describes the 
Mac’s purpose, such as Publishing 
Station. This name allows the Ijser- 
Writer driver to provide useful feed- 
back when you’re printing — more 
about that shortly. 

Finally, if you’re using Multi- 
Finder, activate the Background 
Printing option so you’re not forced 
to wait while the .Mac and printer 
communicate during each print job. 
Background printing intercepts data 
en route to the printer, saves it on 
disk in a spool file, and then tjuickly 
returns control of the Mac to you so 
you can get back to work. Then, a 
system program called PrintMonitor 
transmits the spool file to the printer 
in short bursts while you work (see 
“Monitor Your Printing"). 

(If you’re not sure whether you're 
using MultiFinder, glance at the right 
edge of the menu bar. If no icon ap- 
pears there, you aren't using Multi- 
Finder. You can activate MultiFinder 
using the Set Startup command in the 
Finder’s Special menu; check your 
manual for details.) 

After you perform these steps, 
close the Chooser and try printing a 
short document. If you’re using 
MultiFinder with background printing 
on, you won’t see any status mes- 
sages (telling you who’s printing what 
on which printer) unless you open the 
PrintMonitor window' by choosing its 
name from the Apple menu. If you 
aren’t using MultiFinder or if back- 
ground printing is off, status mes- 
sages appear at the top of the screen 
during the print job. If your test doc- 
ument doesn’t print, retrace your 
steps and double-check the cables. If 
it does print, perform these stef^s on 
each Mac in the network. 

If you always use the same print- 
er, you need to perform the previous 
chores only once; the Chooser re- 
members that you’ve chosen the 
liiserWriter driver as well as the user 
name you typed and the name of the 
printer y'ou selected. How'ever, if you 
switch between two or more Laser- 
Writers or other printers, you need 
to use the Chooser each time you 
change printers. 



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MONITOR YOUR PRINTING When you're using MultiFinder. selecting the Background Printing option in 
the Chooser {top right) eliminates having to wait for the printer. The PriniMonitor application (top left) 
displays the document names of jobs waiting to be printed. Status mossages appear at the bottom of 
PrintMonitor's window (or at the top of tho Mac's screen when background printing is disabled). By 
clicking on the Set Print Time button, you can delay printing until a specific time or postpone it indefi- 
nitely— using the pop-up dialog box (left). 



Phase 2: Electronic Mail 

Once you’ve strung the lines between 
machines, you can add additional ca- 
pabilities to a network by adding ap- 
propriate software. The next step 
might be to add software that lets you 
transfer files between Macs, enabling 
you to say good-bye to the .so-called 
sneaker net — copying files to floppy 
disks and carrying them to other ma- 
chines in your office. 

Several categories of network 
software let you move files between 
machines. One is electronic mciily or 
E-mail softu'are such as Microsoft 
Mail, CE Software’s QuickMail, and 
Sitka’s InBox. With E-mail software, 
\'ou send files as enclosures that ac- 
company messages you type (see 
“Files Enclosed’’). When messages ar- 
rive at their electronic mailbox desti- 
nation, the recipients can .save the 
enclosed files on their own disks. You 
can even request a return receipt 
message, which notifies you when a 
message is read. In large offices, E- 
mail not only makes it easy to trans- 
fer files, it also helps eliminate dis- 
tracting phone calls and annoying 
games of phone tag. 

E-mail Details luich bnind of E-mail 
software has its own openiting stymie, 
but all require .similar setup .steps. 
First, you designate one Mac as the 
E-mail server, the electronic post of- 
fice that store messages and forwards 
them to their addre.ssees. You can 



still use the serv'er Mac to run other 
programs, but you'll notice it slow\s 
down when people are sending and 
retrieving mail as it divides its time 
between postal duties and running 
other programs. 

For this reason, it’s important to 
carefully consider which .Mac in a 
network is best suited to being a 
serv’er. You should use a machine 
with several megabytes of free hard 
disk space and at least 2MB of mem- 
oiy — more if you plan to use Multi- 
Finder on that machine. If you anti- 
cipate heavy mail volume, consider 
using a faster Mac — an SE/30 or a 
member of the II family — instead of a 
Plus or an SE. /\nd make sure you use 
a machine that’s reliable — if someone 
in your office likes to run prerelease 
versions of software (which may 
contain bugs) or games (which often 
monopolize the Mac s hartlware), that 
person’s Mac is not an ideal server. 

After you ch(X>se a server, you set 
up the E-mail serv-er .softw'are, which 
usually comprises a start-up docu- 
ment (I.NIT) that loads the server 
software into the Mac’s memory dur- 
ing start-up and an administrator 
program that you use to create a 
mailbox for each person in the net- 
work. Finally, install on each Mac the 
E-mail client software, which gener- 
ally includes a DA that lets the user 
read and send mail and a start-up 
document that lets the Mac notify the 



user when a message arrives. 

Microsoft Mail, QuickMail, and 
InBox can each easily meet the needs 
of a small netw'ork. As your network 
and needs grow, however, you need 
to decide between Micro.soft Mail and 
QuickMail, both of which currently 
provide more features than InBox. 
QuickMail wins the features derby, 
but it’s harder to learn. An advantage 
to Micro.soft Mail is that it lets you 
exchange mail and documents 
directly within Microsoft Word and 
Excel, Aldus PageMaker 4.0, and Sev- 
ern! other applications. (For a detailed 
comparison of these packages, see 
“E-Mail: A Postal Inspection,’’ Mac- 
world, June 1990.) 

For a simpler variation on the file- 
transfer theme, investigate file-trans- 
fer utilities such as Traveling Soft- 
ware’s LapLink .Mac III Network Pac, 
Gizmo Technologies’ Send Express, 
or Claris Corporation’s Public Folder, 
which is free to registered users of 
Claris products. These utilities don’t 
let you type in messages to be sent; 
they simply beam existing files from 
one machine to another. 

And then there are more special- 
ized products such as Farallon Com- 
puting’s Timbuktu and Microcom’s 
Carbon Copy Mac software. Both 
transfer files, but they aren’t E-mail 
packages; instead, they let you con- 
trol one Macintosh from another, for 
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MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



293 








GEHING STARTED 

HOW TO 




example, to help someone who’s 
simggling to master a clilTicult pro- 
gram. You can take over all the 
screens in the office — great for group 
training sessions. And you can use 
one Mac’s modem or ImageWriter 
printer from another Mac. With Faral- 
lon's Timbuktu/Remote, you can 
even control a Mac over the tele- 
phone lines, although you need 
a high-speed modem such as the 
Hayes Smartmodem 9600 for tolera- 
ble performance. Carbon Copy Mac 
includes remote-access features. 

Phase 3: Creating a File Server 

K-mail products can eliminate sneaker 
wear but not worries over whose ver- 
sion of a certain dcKument is the most 
current. If anything, swapping files 
between different machines only fu- 
els those fears. And having important 
files scattered across the hard drives 
and floppy disks in an office makes 
backing up difficult. 

The solution? Use file-.serv'er soft- 
ware to make one or more hard drives 
available to the entire network. A file 
server is an electronic version of the 
office filing cabinet, provitling shared 
storage for files that eveiyone needs 
(or that only certain people need — 
you can create private folders that 
can’t be used without a pas.sword). 
Backing up is simplified, since all the 
important documents are stored in 
one place. And the entire office can 
take advantage of that high-capacity 
hard drive you just bought. 

Or so go the claims. In reality, a 
network’s hard drive isn’t nearly as 
fast as a local one (attached directly to 
your Mac) because IxKalTalk transfers 
data more slowly than the Mac’s SCSI 
port does. For example, .Microsoft 
Fxcel takes about 10 seconds to start 



294 



FILES ENCLOSED 
With oloctronic- 
mail software such 
as CE Software's 
QuickMail, shown 
hero, you can en- 
close disk files with 
messages. The re- 
cipient clicks on 
the ENCL button to 
‘'retrieve" (save) 
the file. 



from my local hard drive bin over 30 
seconds to start from my file server. 
What's more, putting all that extm data 
on a network’s cabling slows down 
ever>nhing else that takes place on the 
network, such as priming and ex- 
changing F-mail. Thus, it’s best to use 
a file server to store only tlocuments, 
not programs. 

(It’s worth noting that network 
cabling systems such as Ethernet, 
widely used with Digital Ikiuipment 
Corporation’s VAX minicomputers, 
are far faster than LocalT’alk cabling, 
bill are loo costly to be praciical for 
small networks; Ethernet ret|uires that 
you pul $500-to-$100() expansion 
boards in each Mac. What’s more, to 
use a PostScript printer on an Ether- 
net network, you need a protocol 
converter, a kind of network inter- 
preter that translates between the 
differeni communications rules used 
by I‘lhernei and LocaTl’alk.) 

Two Ways to Serve F'ile servers 
come in two flavors: (listnbutecl and 
dedicated (see “Ser\^er Apj^nxiches 
Compared”). With disiributed serving, 
anyone in the network can turn his 
or her machine into a file server by 
publishing one or more foltlers — or 
the entire contents of a hard drive. 
Once it’s published, anyone on the 
network can mount it and u.se it as 
though it were local. File-.server soft- 
ware using this approach includes 
Sitka’s Network Bundle for the Mac- 
intosh (formerly TOPS) and Informa- 
tion Pre.sentation Technologies’ Per- 
sonal Seller Network (PSN). Apple’s 
System 7.0, due out next year, will also 
provitle distributed ser\'cr features. 

With the dedicated ;ipproach, you 
set aside, or dedicate, one Mac and its 
hard drive to act as a sei*v'er for every'- 
one. A dedicated server can’t run ap- 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



plications because the server software 
all but monopolizes the Mac’s hard- 
ware. A ser\'er can, however, run E- 
mail server software. Apple’s $799 
AppleShare FileSer\'er, which sup- 
ports up to 50 users, is the only ded- 
icated server software available that 
UsSes a Mac as the server. (I’ll de.scribe 
.some products that let you turn an 
IBM PC into a seiner shortly.) 

Clearly, distributed file serving 
is the more economical approach. 
Neither Network Bundle nor PSN 
recjuires any extra hardware beyond 
cabling. With Network Bundle, you 
simply buy a copy of the software 
for each u.ser; it retails for $299 but 
is often di.scounted to around $190. 
Network Bundle also includes the In- 
Box E-mail software. PSN retails for 
$189 per machine. 

One downside to distributed file 
ser\'ing is that someone can unpub- 
lisb a folder or hard drive at any time, 
with disastrous results for anyone 
using it. Network Bundle and PSN 
{provide .some safeguards for this, but 
it still can happen. And of cour.se, a 
Mac acting ;us a file server slows down 
when others are accessing its hard 
drive. For more details on file-.serving 
products, .see ‘‘File Ser\Mces,” Mac- 
world, August 1990. 

Application Software Considerations 

A file server lets you keep all your 
documents in one place, but it won’t 
nece.ssarily let everyone access the 
same file simultaneously. Whether 
that’s po.ssible depends on the par- 
ticular program you’re using. 

■ Micro.soft Works lets numerous us- 
ers open the same file, but only the 
one who opened it first can modify 
it. Anyone else must use the Save 
As command to give it a new name. 
Micro.soft Excel works similarly. 

■ Aldus Page.Maker 4.0 lets numerous 
users open a template or a copy of a 
publication, but only one person at a 
time can open an original publication. 

■ Micro.soft Word won’t let more than 
one person open a document unle.ss 
they all check the Read Only option 
in the Open dialog box. (As an 
alternative, you can use the Finder’s 
Get Info command to lock the docu- 
ment.) To modify the file, you must 
save it under a new name. 

• Claris Corporation’s MacDniw II lets 




Server APPROACHES COillPARED 

With distributed file serving (toj)), you can make any Mac in the net- 
work act as a server by publishing one or more folders or the entire 
contents of a hard drive. A seiwer can still be irsed to run application 
programs, but its performance slows when other users access its hard 
drive. With dedicated file seiving (bottom), a Mac is set aside to act as 
a server. A dedicated sei*ver can’t be used to run programs, but it could 
run electronic-mail server software. 



mi Server 




multiple users open a file, but only 
the person who opens it first can save 
changes normally (that is, by using the 
Save command). If others tr>^ to save 
changes they’ve made, a message asks 
if they want to save the changed 
document under a new name or not 
save the changes after all. 

■ Claris’s FileMaker 11 and FileMaker 
Pro, ACIUS’s 4th Dimension, and Fox 
Software’s FoxBase4-/Mac are multi- 
user database managers that let 
numerous UvSers work simultanec^usly 
with a database file. However, only 
one person at a time can modify a 
given record (one entry in the data- 
base, such as someone’s name and 
address). Multiuser data managers 
also provide security features that let 
you make certain information avail- 
able to only certain people. In a per- 
sonnel database, for example, you 
might want to give eveiyone access 
to employee names and phone ex- 
tensions, but only certain managers 
access to salary information. 

As you can see, not all programs 
behave satisfactorily on a network. 



After setting up a network for file 
serving, test your applications to see 
how they behave when more than 
one person tries to open a document. 

Other Networking Options 

After you master printer sharing, elec- 
tronic mail, and file serving, you might 
want to investigate more advanced 
networking options. If you use IBM 
PCs, PS/2s, or compatibles, you can tie 
them into the network using LocalTalk 
expansion boards such as Sitka’s 
FlashCard, Apple’s LocalTalk PC Card, 
or DayStar Digital’s LT200 Connection 
PC and, for IBM PS/2s, LT200 Connec- 
tion MC. Apple’s AppleShare PC lets 
LocalTalk-equipped PCs access an 
AppleShare server. You can also turn 
a PC into a server for Macs using 
softw'are such as Novell’s NetWare, 
DayStar Digital’s FSlOO, and 3Com 
Corporation’s 3 + Share. Microsoft 
Mail, InBox, and QuickMail are avail- 
able for PCs. And there are PC-orient- 
cd E-mail packages such as cc:Mail IAN 
Package for Macintosh (from a com- 
pany by the same name), Dayna Com- 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



munications’ DaynaMail, and 3Com’s 
3+ Mail for Macintosh. 

If you have employees who travel 
frequently or work at home, you may 
want to give your network remote 
access features to allow those users to 
dial in and access the file server, E- 
mail system, and even laser printer. 
Shiva Corporation’s NetModems in- 
clude dial-in access software for Macs; 
Shiva’s DOS Dial-In package allows 
PCs to call home. Infosphere’s Liaison 
software also allows dial-in access. For 
those who exchange E-mail via tele- 
communications services such as MCI 
Mail or CompuServ^e, QuickMail, In- 
Box, and Microsoft Mail provide gate- 
way features that unite a network and 
a service by automatically dialing the 
service at specified intervals and 
sending or retrieving mail. 

Then there’s groupivare, a new 
genre of network-oriented software 
designed around the fact that people 
often collaborate on projects. Far- 
allon’s Timbuktu and Microcom’s 
Carbon Copy Mac enable users to 
control each other’s machines. Main- 
stay’s Markup lets multiple users 
electronically annotate a document 
and keeps track of when comments 
were made. CE Softw'are’s In/Out lets 
you track the w^hereabouts of the 
employees in your office. 

But before venturing into these 
w'aiers, master the basics. Add one 
capability at a time to your network, 
and be sure everyone understands it 
before expanding further. And don’t 
ignore your network-administration 
duties: Develop a filing system for 
your server. Be on the alert for vi- 
ruses — networks allow them to 
spread easily (see last June’s “Get- 
ting Started with Virus Protection”). 
Use the same version of the Laser- 
Writer driver on each Mac. 

Follow these basic guidelines, and 
you’ll have few^er technical problems 
and questions to answ^er. In short, 
you’ll increase your net’s w'orth. □ 

Sue Where To Buy for contact information. 



Ji?7i Heid is a Macworld conhibuting 
editor who focuses on Mac funda- 
mentals. His latest hook, coauthored 
with Peter Norton, is Inside the Apple 
Macintosh (Brady, 1989). 



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2.0 



Insights on MacDraft 

Precision drawing at warp speed 




BY CHARLES SEITER 

.acDraft has been a strong competitor 
of MacDraw since it first appeared, and MacDraft 2.0 has a selec- 
tion of new features that make it even more attractive. This pro- 
gram has a bit of an identity problem, however. ^JC'Tiile it has 




features that go beyond traditional 
drawing programs, it’s not intended 
to be a true CAD package (IDD offers 
Dreams for CAD users). Most of the 
tips here are directed toward Mac- 
Draft’s target users — people who oc- 
casionally need a precision drafting 
program and thus require simplicity 
as well as a feature-rich drafting envi- 
ronment. (For a review of MacDraft, 
see Reviews in this issue.) 

Trick Clicks Zoom Quick 

The fast way to activate the magnify- 
ing glass is to hold down the Shift key 
and click on the pointer tool in the 
Draft palette. Position the magnifying 
glass cursor over the part of your 
drawing you want to inspect. VCTien 
you click the mouse button, you’ll 
zoom in on the drawing, magnifying 
your view by 2 times the original size. 
Keep clicking, and the view keeps 
zooming by 2 times with each click. 
To zoom back out, hold down the 
Option key and click the mouse but- 
ton. You will notice that the plus sign 
in the magnifying glass has turned to 
a minus; every^ time you click the 
mouse button the view zooms back 
out by 2 times. To get back to a stan- 
dard cursor, just click the pointer tool. 



Firing Blanks 

At the bottom of the drawing window, 
next to the pan tool (usually called the 
grabber hand), there is a little blank 
space on the bar. If you click here af- 
ter selecting an object that has been 
filled with a pattern or a color, that 
object will be converted to No fill. 

Quick on the Redraw 

If you have to do lots of scrolling 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



through a complex document, do this 
first. Choose Hide Fills from the Fill 
menu, hide the drawing layers you’re 
not using, and select Hide Line Styles 
from the Line menu. You can always 
reinvoke the fills and line styles when 
the redrawing is finished. If you want 
to stop a redraw op- 
eration, hold down §€ 
and the period key. 

Long Division 

Very' often in a draw- 
ing y'ou will need to 
bisect a line segment, 
whether it’s a free- 
standing line, the 
edge of a polygon, or 
a piece of curve. 
Here’s what to do: 

1. Click on the 
line with the pointer 
to show existing 
handles. 

2. Select the 
I Add/Delete Handle 
I command from the 
§ Edit menu. 

3. Hold down 
the Shift key and click on the line you 
want to bisect. You will see a new 
handle positioned exactly in the 
middle of the line. This will also w'ork 
on irregular segments of cur\'es drawm 
freehand; what happens is that the 
program gives you a new handle that 
bisects the segment you click, be- 
tween the two nearest handles (see 
“Splitting the Difference’’). 

(continues) 



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INSIGHTS 

HOW TO 




STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND 
CIRCULATION REQUIRED BY 39 U.S.C. 3685 

1 Macworld Pub. No. 07418647 

2. Dote of filing; October 1, 1990 

3. Published monihly 

3A. No. of issues published annually: 1 2 
3B. Annual subscription price: $30.00 

4. Known office of publicalion; 501 Second Si., 
San Francisco, CA 94 1 07 

5. Complete mailing address of the headquorrers of 
general business offices of the publisher 
A/\ACWORLD,501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 
94107 

6. The names and address of the publisher, edilo", 
and managing editor are Publisher; James E. 

Martin, MACWORLD, 501 Second S\, San 
Francisco, CA 94107; Editor: Jerry Borrell, 
MACWORLD, 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 
94107; Managing Editor: Chorles Barrett, 
MACWORLD. 501 Second St., San Francisco, CA 
94107 

7. The owner is: IDG COMMUNICATIONS, INC.. 
Patrick McGovern, 5 Speen St., Framingham, MA 
01701 . The names and addresses of stockholders 
owning or holding 1 % or more of the total amount 
of stock are listed below. 

None 

8. There are no known bondholders, ncilgagees, 
or other security holders owning or holding 1 % or 
more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages, or 
other securities. 

10. Extent and nature ol circulation 
Average no. copies each issue during preceding 
1 2 months: A. Total no. copies (net press run) 
472,044; B. Paid and/or requested circulation 1 . 
Sales through dealers ond carriers, street venders 
and counter sales, 55,898; 2. Mail subscription 
(paid and/or requested), 306,264; 

C. Total paid and/or requested circulotion (sum of 
lOBl and 10B2) 362,162; 

D. Free distribution by mail, carrier or other means, 
samples, complimentary, and other free copies, 
35,912; E. Total distribution (sum of C and D) 
398,074; F. Copies not distributed 

1 . Office use, left over, unaccounted for, spoiled 
after printing 3,201 : 2. Return from, news agents, 
70,769; G. Total (sum of E. FI . and F2 -should 
equal net press run shown in At 472.044. 

Actual no. copies of single Issue published nearest 
to filing date: A. Total no. copies (net press run) 
553, 110; B. Paid and/or requested circulation 1 . 
Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors 
and counter sales, 60,424; 2. Mall subscrlpt on 
(paid and/or requested), 333, 1 85; C. Total paid 
and/or requested circulation (sum of 1 OB 1 and 
10B2) 393,609; 

D. Free distribution by mail, carrier or other means, 
samples, complimentary, and other free copies, 

75. 1 1 1 ; E. Total distribution (sum. of C and D), 
468,720: F. copies not distributed 
1 Office use, left over, unaccounted for, spoiled 
after printing, 3,204; 2. Return from newsagents, 
81,1 86, G. Total (sum of E, FI , and F2 -should 
equal net press run shown in A) 553, 1 1 0. 

1 1 1 certify that the statements made by me above 

are correct and complete. Jerry Borrell. Editor. 



Getting a Handle on Curves 

Normally, when you edit a hezier 
CLiive in MacDraft you select a handle 
on one side of the cliitc and move it. 
This lets you change the shape of 
each side of the curve indepetidently 
of the other side. Sometimes, how- 
ever, you want to make sure that the 
resulting edited curve presents a 
smooth flow from one segment to 
another, meaning that you want to 
control both sides of the curve simul- 
taneously. You can constrain the 
handles of a bezier curve to move in 
tandem instead of independently if 
you hold down both the Shift and 
Option keys before editing tbe cuive. 

Easy Dimensioning 

Most precision drawings will rec|uire 
dimensioning lines. The standard way 
to add them to a MacDraft drawing is 
to go to the Line menu, pick a line 
style and an end-mark style, and then 
select the dimension line choice (XX, 
the last item in the menu). The 
problem with this arrangement is that 
you then have to reactivate the Line 
menu and readjust the line style if you 
want to continue drawing with a line 
style that’s different from the dimen- 
sioning line style you selected. 

Fortunately, there’s a slick way to 
introduce dimensioning lines (with 



SPLiniNG THE 
DIFFERENCE To 
bisect a line segment 
hold down the Shift 
key when you select 
Add/Delete Handle 
from Edit. Click on 
the line edge, and 
the handle will be 
precisely positioned 
halfway between the 
two handles defining 
the segment. 



their associated line styles and end 
marks) without setting and resetting 
Styles. If you hold down the Tab key 
and then click on a line-drawing tool, 
the line you draw automatically be- 
comes a dimensioning line, and you 
can introduce dimension lines any- 
w'here in the drawing. Now, when you 
release the Tab key, you revert t(^ 
standard line drawing. 

Because MacDraft is an object- 
oriented drawing program, you can 
do another useful dimensioning 
trick: extracting dimension data for 
reference in a table. First, draw the 
dimensioning line you need in the 
drawing. Then select this line and 
choose the Ungroup command from 
the yVrrange menu (this disconnects 
the text a.ssociated with the dimen- 
sion line from the line itselO- De.se- 
lect both elements by clicking in a 
blank area of the drawing. Now click 
on the text to .select it and drag it to 
the desired area, such as an entity 
space in a table. Because the program 
still a.ssociates the text’s numerical 
measurement with the dimensioning 
line in the drawing, when the line is 
resized (you can experiment with this 
by dragging one of the end-handles) 
the entr\- in the table will automati- 
cally update to reflect the new size 
(see 'Tabling a McHion”). 

Good 

References 

Using the datum 
point feature of 
MacDraft, you 
can establish a 
reference point 
(on an object or 
a group of ob- 
jects) that can 




§^-p 0 riod Cancel redraw 



Shift click (on pointer tool) 


Activates magnifying glass 


Hold spacebar 


Converts pointer to hand 


Hold Shift (on Add/Delete tool) 


Bisects line with a click 


Tab (on a line-drawing tool) 


Converts to dimension line 



298 MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 








TABLING A MOTION 
After adding a dimen- 
sioning line into a 
drawing, you can se- 
lect the line, choose 
Ungroup from Arrange, 
select the dimension 
information separately, 
and move it to a table. 
Here the horizontal 
dimension has been 
moved under the 
word table. 



be used in several way’s: for exact 
placement of objects when you paste 
one set over another, for establishing 
a point of rotation for objects, or for 
distributing objects along a line at 
specified distances from a reference 
point. The standard way of distribut- 
ing objects is to use the Distribute On 
Line item from the Arrange menu — 
hut objects are attached in a clump 
along the line and must be spaced out 
manually. A better method is a varia- 
tion that automatically and precisely 
spaces objects along the line by ref- 
erence to a datum point on the square 
instead of its center (the usual Dis- 
tribute On Line reference point). First, 
make a .st|uare. Then pick the Edit 
Datum command from the Edit menu, 
and click on the upper-left corner of 
the square (this establishes the datum 
point). Click on the pointer tool to 
exit the Edit Datum mode. 

Now duplicate the square three 
times and make sure all three squares 
are selected (Shift-click if necessary). 
From the View menu select Show Size 
so that distances appear in the dis- 
play at the bottom of the drawing (you 
may find it easier to follow position- 



ing if the display is in decimal dis- 
tances — centimeters — rather than 
inch fractions). Hold down the Op- 
tion key before opening the Arrange 
menu, and select the Distribute On 
Line command. Use the pointer to 
indicate where you want the first 
square to appear on the drawing, and 
hold the mouse button down as you 
drag to distribute the stjuares to pre- 
cise separation distances (the squares 
string themselves out proportionally 
along the drag line, so you need to 
note only the distance of the end 
point of the line). “Distribution" shows 
the result. 

Sharing the Wealth 

If you’ve found a tip or shortcut not 
mentioned here, spread the w’ord to 
other Macworld readers by sending 
it to Quich Tips, Macworld, 501 Sec- 
ond St., San Francisco, CA 94107. □ 

See Where to Buy for contact information. 



Charles Suiter uses Macintosh draft- 
ing and CAJD pmgrants in designing 
analytical ecjuipnietit for molecular 
hiologyK 




DISTRIBUTION The 
squares were posi- 
tioned using the Edit 
Datum feature. Pick- 
ing a reference, or 
datum, point in the 
upper-left corner of 
the object allows 
better positioning 
with the Distribute 
On Line command 
than does object cen- 
ters as references. 



maxell. 

5 ^ 5 - 5 ^ 5 * 

Q-Side / [>-Density 

4.99 fSS 8.99 

3.50” DS 3.50” HD 

7.29 IhIi3T99 



on l( \l. DISKS - i \\A. lor PUU US 



DATA CASStHTtiS 

CS-500 50 MB ) 13.13 

CS-600HD (60 MB) 15.25 

CS-600 XD.... ( 155 MB ) 15.95 

DISKETTE CONNECTION 



Dysan 



%ih'sant()0\ 



5.25" 

D-8kte / O-Densll 





3.5” DS ( 1 MB) 

7.29 

3.5” HD (2MB) 

13.99 



per box 



BULK 3.5" DS 49 ea 



DATA CARTRIDGES 

QD 2000 13.75 

QD600A 19.25 

QD 6150. 19.95 

8 mm Video Cass ette ( P6-120MP )... 5.95 

DISKETTE CONNECTION 




MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



Circle 79 on reader service card. 













At Mount Sinai Hospital, 
some of the best brains in the 
country rely on Sony. 







Updates 



Here's our list of the current shipping 
versions of Mac software at the time we 
went to press. We hope you'll find it 
useful— because these days, keeping 
track of the latest CPU is tough enough. 

4th Dimension version 2.1 runs faster in 
less memor)^ than previous version. 
Find in Array starts searching at the 
first element instead of zero element, 
and a pop-up list of entr>^ filters has 
been added to the Field and Object 
definition dialog boxes. ACIUS, 408/ 
252-4444. Contact vendor for upgrade 
policy; $795 new. 



Nisus version 3.0 has redesigned menus 
to make features more accessible, 
changed the name of some menu 
items to make their functions more 
obvious, and added a new Program- 
ming Dialect Module to the macro 
language. Includes noncontiguous 
selection, enhanced graphics with 
page-layout capabilities, increased 
Script Manager compatibility, style 
slieets with paragraph and character 
styles, mail merge, and extended 
keyboard support. Paragon Concepts, 
619/481-1477. Contact vendor for up- 
grade policy; $395 new. 



PixelPaint Pro version 2.0 lets users 
autoscroll through images up to 4K 
by 4K; permits semitransparent mask- 
ing; allows you to reposition and edit 
any shape or text after its creation; 
provides adjustment of color, con- 
trast, and brightness; and includes the 
ability to work with tools such as pen- 
cil and airbrush, SuperMac Software, 
408/245-2202. $125; $799 new. 

Virex version 2.8 has been updated to 
detect and treat two new viruses, 
CDEF and MDEF2. HJC Software, 919/ 
490-1277. $15; $99.95 new. 



PRODUCT UPDATES 

Product V. Req. Hev. Price Product V Req Rov. Price Product V. Roq, Rev. Price 



1st Aid Kit « 


2.B 


512KE/3.0 




* 


4th Dimension 


2.1 


1Ma ' 6.02 


3/90 


Free 


Aalhx CheckWriter II ★ 


2.01 


5I2K/4.1 




<10 


Aatrix TimeCard 


2.0 


512K/4.2 




Free 


Accountant Inc.. Pro 


1.03 


1 MB/6.03 


9/90 


$19.95 


ACCPAC Bedford 


1.1 


1 MB/5.1 




<50 


Simply Accounting 










AccuText 


2.0 


4MB/6.02 


2/90 


♦ 


Adobe Type Manager 


1.2 


1MB/6.02 


2/90 


Free 


AdWriler 


2.0 


1 MB/6.0 




Free 


After Dark 


2.0 


512KE/4.1 


7/90 


5ic 


Alchemy 


1.1 


IMB/6.0 


10/90 


$25 


Aldus FreeHand 


2.02 


1 MB/6.03 




♦ 


Aldus PageMaker it 


4.0 


1 MB/4.1 


9/90 


* 


Aldus Persuasion 


2.0 


IMB/6.0 




♦ 


AmPack Plus it 


4.2.2 


512IV3.2 


1/90 


$29.95 


Analog Connection 


3.0 


1 MB/5.0 


5/90 


$50 


WorkBonch 










Anatool ★ 


3.1 


512K/3.0 




$35 


AntiToxin 


1.3 


1 MB/6.0.2 


1/90 


<15 


Aperture 


1.7 


2MB/6.0.3 


7/90 




APL.68000 


7.0 


512K/3.2 




Xc 


AppleShare File Senrer 


2.0 


512K/3.2 




* 


ArchiTexi 


2.0 


1M&'6.02 




Free 


Aristotle's Politics 


2.0 


2MB/6.03 




Free 


The Art Importer 


2.0 


IMB/6.0 


5/‘90 


<20 


ArtRoom 


3.0 


512K/3.2 




$199 


AutoCalc 


2.0 


IMB/6.0 




$95 


AuloSave II 


l.l 


512KE/4.2 


7/90 


$7.50 


A/UX 


2.0 


4MB/6.Q.5 




♦ 


Artec C 


3.6 


5I2KE/4.2 




♦ 


BackFax * 


1.02 


1 MB/6.03 


1/90 


Free 


Back to Basics: 


2.0 


512K/3.2 




$75 


Professional 










Bridge 


6.0 


512K/3.2 




$17 


Business FileV'ision it 


1.5 


1MB/6.02 




* 


Business Sense it 


1.2 


IMB/6.0 




+ 


Business Session H 


3.2 


5I2K/3.2 




Free 



Bold * first tune the product is being listed. 
★ = rrrinor update. 



CA-Cricket Presents 


2.0.1 


1 MB/6.0 




* 


Calculator 


2.06 


512K/3.2 


4/90 


<25 


Construction Set it 










CanOpener 


1.1 


512K/3.0 




Free 


Canvas 


2.1 


IMB/6.0 






Capture 


3.0 


IMB/BQ 


2/90 


<15 


Central System Manager 


2.1 


1MB/5.0x 




♦ 


Chameleon 


3.0 


512K/3.2 




Free 


ChromaScan 


1.1 


4MB/6.02 




Free 


Claris CAD 


2.0 


2MB/6.0 




<79 


Ctient/Mac 


2.0 


IMB/6.0 




$370 


Codecheck 


2.0 


1 MB/6.0 




Free 


Colleague 2 


2.1 


2MB/6.03 




Free 


Colorsel it 


1.5 


1 MB/6.0 


6/90 


Free 


Comment 


2.02 


IMB'6.0 




♦ 


Commtact 


2.0 


IMB/6.0 




Free 


Community Mac it 


1.3.1 


iMB^eo 




* 


Compilelt 


1.5 


1 MB/6.02 


3/90 


$30 


CompuServe Navigator * 


2.1 


512K/3.2 




* 


Computerized 


2.2 


IMB/6.0 




♦ 


Classic Accounting 










ConcertWare 


5.1 


512KE/4.2 




$35 


Control II 


1.1 


2MB/6.04 




Free 


CopyFlow 


2.0 


2MB/6.0 


6/90 


Free 


Cue 


3.0 


1 MB/6.03 






DacEasy Light 


2.0 


1MB/6.03 




* 


Checkbook Accoanllag 










Data Desk 


3.0 


512K/4.02 


6.^90 


$125 


DatsMerge 


2.0 


512X/3.2 




Free 


dBase Mac it 


1.01 


1 MB/4.1 




Free 


Deluxe Music 


2.5 


S12K/6.Q2 




♦ 


Construction Set 










Design Dimensions * 


2.15 


5MB/6.03 




Free 


DeskPaint H 


3.0 


1 MB/4.2 


5/90 


Free 


Developer Stack 


3.0 


IMB/6.0 




$15 


OiagramMaker A 


1.1 


1 MB/6.02 




* 


Digital Darkroom 


1.1 


1 MB/6.02 




Free 


DiskDoubler 


2.0 


1MB/6.02 


12/90 


♦ 



Req. = min. RAM and system software required. 

Rov. = last timefin post year) reviewed this or on earlier version. 



DiskExpress II 2.04 1 MB/6.0 11/90 ♦ 

DiskFit 1.5 512K/4.» <30 

DiskTop 4.0 1 MB/6.0 * 

Display AdBuilder 1.1 1MB/6.03 * 

DocuComp 1.5 512K/3.0 12.90 <19.95 

Dollars and Senso 4.1 512KE/3.2 * 

Dreams 1.1 I MB/6.02 ♦ 

OynaPerspeclivo 2.0 2MB/6.04 Ffo« 

DynoDex ★ 1.21 1MB/6.0 6/90 Free 

Easy Color Point 1.1 1MB/6.0 9/90 * 

Eirrpowefll ★ 3.03 1MB/4.2 Free 

Endlink 1.1 5I2K/3.2 Free 

EndNole 1.2 512KE/3.2 Free 

Exodus 2.0 1 MB/6.0 <50 

Extender GralPak 3.0 1 MB/6.02 <30 

Falcon 2.2 1 MB/3.2 <3 

Fastback II 2.1 512KE/4.1 <30 

Fast Forms 2.0 512K/3.2 11/90 <25 

FastLabel 2.0 1 MB/6.0 <36 

FastTrack 1 .5 512ICE/5.5 <20 

FaxGate * 1.02 1 MB/6.0 Free 

Ferrari Grand Prix * 1.6 5I2K/3.2 <10 

Fetchit 2.0 5I2K/6.01 ee 

FileMaker II ★ 1.1 1 MB/4.2 * 

FilmMaker 2.0 5MB/6.0.3 « 

Finale 2.01 I MB/6.02 5/90 <5 

Financial Analysis 3.0 512K/3.0 * 

Findswell 2.01 512KE/3.2 3/90 e 

Fontographer 3.1 1 MB/4.2 5/90 ♦ 

FontShare 2.0 I MB/6.0 Free 

FormsProgrammor it 2.03 1MB/6.02 <15 

FoxBase-f/Mac it 2.10 1 MB/6.0 </5 

Freedom of Press * 2.2 1MB/‘6.0 Free 

FreeFlow 3.0 1 MB/1603 Free 

Full Infract ★ 2.0 I MB/6.0 <50 

FullWiile Professional 1.5 2MB/6.02 * 

Gamblin' Times 3.0 IMB/6.0 <10 

(earttinuos) 

Price = cost for update to registered owners. 

♦ = contact your deafer for update policy. 



MACWORLD • DECEMBER 1990 



301 





-UPDATES 



PRODUCT UPDATES 

Product V. Roll Rev. Price Product \i. Rei|. Rev. Price Product V. Req. Rev. Price 



GaloiBoi 1.5 NA Fret 



Goo Qua ry 


2.0 


1 MB/6.0 


ia<90 


♦ 


Gofef 


2.0 


IMBr'4.1 




$25 


GQL 


2.0 


1 MB/5.0 




4> 


Grammatik Mac 


2.0 


1 MB/5.0 


9/90 


Free 


Great Ganll 


1.2 


1MD/6.0 


12/90 


Free 


Great Plains 


5.2 


1MB/6.0 




* 


Accounting Serwi 










HandOII 


1.2 


1 MB/6.0 


4/90 


* 


Handwriting Anatyil Ar 


3.1 


512K/3.2 


1/90 


$24.95 


Hard Disk Partition 


3.02 


1 MB/6.0 




$30 


Hard Disk UtJ 


3D 


IMa’6.0 




$65 


Help OA 


3.0 


IM8/6.0 




Free 


HFS Backup 


30 


512K/3.2 




$35 


HydroMac 


2.0 


1 MB/8.0 




>l< 


Hyper Animator * 


IS 


IMB/603 




$29.95 


HyperCard a 


2.0 


1 MB/'S 03 




$49 


NyperOA * 


1.2 


5I2IC'3.2 




$10 


HypetEngine 


1.1 


1MB^6.03 




Free 


Developer's Tool * 










HyperLibrary 


2.0 


IMB/S.O 




♦ 


HypeiPort Chess 


2.0 


IMB/’GO 




$10 



HyperToolt 2.0 2MB/6.02 S20 



HyperWindows A 


1.2 


1MB/6.02 




$20 


Iconia A 


7.0 


IMa'6.0 




* 


Icon-tt 


2.0 


lMa'6.02 


B'90 


$29 


Igor A 


1.1 


1 MB/6.0 


B'90 


Free 


Imago Grabber 


2.0 


1 MB/6.02 




Free 


ImageSludio 


1.5 


1 MB/6.0 




$99 


ImageWriler LQ 


2.0 


5I2K/3.2 




Free 


Print Driver « 










In-CAD 


2.0 


2MD/60 




* 


InfoLogic Envelope A 


Uc 


5I2KE/4.0 




$5 


Insight Export 


2.2 


1MB/6 0 




A 


Accounts Payable 










insight Expert 


2.2 


1Ma'6.02 




♦ 


Accounts Receivable 










Insight Expert 


2.2 


1 MB/4.2 




$99 


General ledger 










Inspiration 


ZO.S 


IMa'4.2 


11/30 


Free 


Instanl-Eipert Plus 


3.0 


IMa'5.0 




Free 


JelLink Exproii A 


1.01 


IMBiBO 




Free 


KidsTime A 


1.2 


5I2K/3.2 




$15 


KiwiEnvekipes 


3.0 


512KE/4.1 




$10 


LanguageSysioms 


2.1 


1 MB/6.03 




A 



Fofiran ★ 



LapLink Mac III 


3.0 


5I2K/2 0 


7/90 


A 


LaserPamt Color II * 


1.02 


IMB^03 




Free 


LetraSiudo 


1.5 


2MB/60 




$45 


LeIrTuckA 


2.0 


512K/3.2 




$20 


lightspeod Color 


2.0 


1MB 




♦ 


Layout System 










Lookup 


2.0 


IMB'6 0 


5/90 


$15 


Mac86 


2.0 


1 MB/6.02 




$10 


Maezee 


2.0 


lMa' 6.02 




$10 


Mac3270 


2.0 


1MB/6.03 




A 


MacAnalyst 


2.0 


2MB/60 




$125 


MacArchilrion 


4.0 


2Ma'6.03 




Free 


MacAtlas Paint 


2.0 


512V32 




$35 


MacClassAds 


4.0 


IMB/6.0 




A 


MacConcept 


3.0 


1 MB/6.03 




A 


MacDesigner 


3.0 


2MB/60 




$125 


MacOraft 


2.0 


2MB/6.0 2 


12/90 


A 


MacOraw II 


1.1 


IMB/6.0 




A 


7/acEnvelope 


5.0 


512XE/3.2 




$25 


7i4acEnvelape Plus 


2.0 


512KE/3.2 


1/90 


$50 


MacFalcon 


2.1 


IMa^6 03 




A 


MacFlow A 


3.1.5 


1 MB/6.03 




Free 


MacForUan 


2.4 


512K/4 2 




A 





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Product 


V. 


Req. 


Rev. 


Price 


Product 


V. 


Req. 


Rev. 


Price 


Product 


V. 


Req. 


Rev. 


Price 


MacFortranAIZO 


2.4 


5I2ICM.2 




* 


MacWrite II 


1.1 


1MB/'60 




Free 


Microsolt Excel 


2.2 


1MB/6.0.2 




* 


MacFortran lor MPW 


1.1 


2MB/6.02 




Free 


Managing Your Money 


3.0 


lMB/6.03 


6/90 


$49.95 


Microsolt File 


2.0 


512IC/3.2 




♦ 


Maclnllse 


3.0 


1MB./6.0 




$30 


MapGralix 


2.0 


4MB/6.03 




Free 


Microsolt Mail 


2.0 


IMB/6.02 


1/90 


♦ 


MacLinkPfus/Wang VS 


4.0 


5I2KE/3.2 




$45 


Maple 


4.2.1 


1 MB/6.0 




+ 


Microsolt PowerFYrint 


2,01 


1 MB/6.0 




Free 


MacLotio 


2.1 


512IV4.0 




$10 


MarcoPolo 


1.1 


IMB/'B.O 




Free 


Microsolt Word 


4.0 


512KE/3.2 




* 


MacMainFrame 3270/CUT 2.1 


2.5MB/6.02 




$100 


MarketMaster 


11 + 


1MB/6.03 




$25 


Microsolt Works 


2.0 


512IV6.0 




* 


MacMoney 


3.5 


512KE/4.0 




$12 


Markup 


1.02 


IMB/E.O 


5/90 


Free 


MindWrilo ★ 


2.1 


512KE/4.2 




5ie 


MacPhonebook 


2.0 


512KE/3.2 


1/90 


if 


Master Tracks Pro 4 


4.12 


1Ma^4.1 


6/90 


$45 


MiniCad + 


2.0 


1 MB/6.0 




« 


MacPrint 


1.23 


IMB/6.02 




Free 


MathCAD ★ 


2.06 


1Ma^6.0.2 


1/90 


Free 


MiniDraw 


4.0 


512KE/4.2 




$17 


MocProject II 


2.1 


1 MB/6.0 




Free 


MatliTypo 


2.1 


512K/6.02 




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PhotoMacEdit 


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$30 


The Phrase Thesaurus 


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PICT Detective 


2.0 


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$125 


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PowerOraw 


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512K/4.1 




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PowerTools 


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Praciica Musica 


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512K/3.2 




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Pro Cite ★ 


1.3 


512K/4.1 




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Professional Composer 


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Professional Image II 


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IM&'6.0 




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The Programmer's 


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IMB/6.02 




$10 


Online Companion 










Prograph 


2.0 


2Ma/6.0 


a/90 


* 


Property Management ill 




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$100 


PropsFormi 


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Prototyper ★ 


2.01 


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$79 


Publish-lt 


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Publish or Perish 


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512K/4.2 




$10 


Pyro 


4.0 


512K/4.1 


7/90 


$15 


Q-Sheot A/V 


2.0 


IMB/6.0 


10/90 


$50 


QuarkXPress 


3.0 


2M&'6.0.5 


11/90 


$30 


Quicken * 


1.5 


512K/5.0 


1/90 


$30 


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IMB/6.02 




$49.95 



QuickLelior 


1.1 


5I2KE/3.2 




Free 


QuickLock 


2.0 


5I2KE/3.2 


10/90 


Free 


QuickMail 


2.2 


512K&a2 




$95 


QuickShare 


2.0 


512KE/3.2 




$75 


QuIckShot ir 


2.1 


1 MB/4.2 




$5 


RegTime 3 


3.04 


2MB/6.0 


B/90 


$150 


Read’ll QCR ParstMial 


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VI 


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Free 


Rendorvous 


2.5 


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$49 


Forecasting Toolkit 










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Free 


SAM 


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1/90 


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ScanMan Model 32 




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Free 


ScheduleMaker rr 


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$25 


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1MD/4.2 




X 


ScriptEdit 


1.1 


IMB/6.Q4 


3/90 


ih 


Second Sight 


2.0 


IMB/6.02 




$33.75 


Senbnel 


2.2 


IMa'E.O 




$30 


Shanghai 


2.0 


1Ma'6.02 


Z^90 


$13 


Shortcut 


1.5 


IMB/6.0 


3/90 


Free 


SimMac 


3.0 


1Ma6.02 




Free 


SimpleSpan 


2.5 


512K/3.2 




* 


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12/90 


$25 


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* 


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Free 


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$20 


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3.1 


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♦ 


SollPC ★ 


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$45 


Universal A 










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V: 


Spellswell * 


22 


512K/3.2 


5/90 


$20 


Spinnaker Plus 


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2MD/6.Q 




$45 


Springboard Publisher 


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1MB.^.0 




4< 


Stepping Out II 


2.0 


IMa‘4.1 




Free 


StickyBusiness 


1.06 


5I2KE/6.03 




Free 


Still Light 


3.0 


IMaE.O 




Free 


StralaVision 3d 


2.0 


2Mae.o3 


4/90 


$99 


Suitcase II 


1.2.6 


512KE/4.1 




$25 


Super 30 


2.1 


512KE/6.02 




Free 


SuparANQVA 


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Frae 


SuperGluo II with 


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1/90 




GlueNotes 










SuperLaserSpool 


2.0.2 


iMao.o 




$30 



SuporPaint 


2.0 


IMB/6.02 




$50 


SuperSpool 


5.0 


5I2K/4.1 




$30 


Sybil 


2.0 


iMaeo 


11/90 




Synchronicily 


2.5 


512KE/3.2 




$10 


Syslat 


5.0 


4MaE.O 




$190 


Toactier's Rollbook * 


2.2 


512K/3.2 




$17.95 


Tempo II 


1.02 


IMa4.2 




* 


Tempo -► Tools * 


1.1 


IMa4,2 




♦ 


Ternary Plot 


3.0 


512K/3.2 




* 


TextPerl ★ 


3.01 


IMB/6.0 




Frae 


TextScan 


3.04 


IMaeo 




$6995 


TGRAF-07/Mac 


2.0 


2Mae.o 




♦ 


Think C 


4.0 


1 MB/5.0 


2/90 


* 


Think Pascal 


3.0 


IMa5.0 


11/90 


$69 


ThunderWorks 


1.0.3 


1MB/6.0.2 




$69 


Timbuklu 


3.1 


1 MB/4.1 


law 


* 


Timbuklu/Remole 


2.0 


1Ma4,l 


3/90 


* 


TimeMinder 


2.0 


1Ma4.2 




$50 


Timeslips III 


2.0 


IMa6.02 


2/90 


♦ 


TML Pascal II 


3.0 


iMa^o 




$79.95 


TMON ★ 


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512K/4.0 






TOPS/Mac 


3.0 


5I2K/3.2 




♦ 


Trapeze ★ 


2.1 


IMaeo 




$35 


TrueBASIC tv 


2.02 


IMaE.O 




Free 


TruoForm ★ 


1.1 


IMB/C.2 


4/OD 


Froo 


TutboCASE 


2.0 


1MB/60 




$25 


Turbosynth 


2.0 


1MB./6 03 




$35 


Typeface Library 


1.5 


1 MB/6.03 




* 


TypuStyler 


1.5 


1 MB/4.1 


7/90 


* 


UNITiro ★ 


1.3 


5I2KE<^.2 




$20 


UpBeat 


2.01 


IMB/6.0 


8/90 


$75 


VersaCAO/ 


2.11 


IMB/6.0 




Free 


Macintosh Edition tv 










Vietnam War 


2.0 


IMae.o 




* 


Virei 


2.8 


lMa4.2 


1/90 


$15 


Virtual 2.0 for 030 


2.03 


1 MB/4.2 




Free 


Virtuel 2.0 for Mac II 


2.03 


1 MB/4.2 




Free 


Virtual 2.0 for Mac Plus 


^02 


1Ma4.2 




Free 


Vision 


1.1 


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Free 


VMacS 


2.0 


iMas.o 




$25 


Voyager 


1.2 


IMae.o 


4/90 


* 


Wall Street Investor 


30 


1 MB/5.0 




$150 


White Knight II 


11.6 


IMB/6.02 


7/90 


$35 


Wild Things tv 


1.1 


IMaeo 




Free 


WiilMaker 


4.0 


512KE/4.2 




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Wingi tv 


1.1 


IMB/6.0 




Free 


Word Finder 


2.0 


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♦ 


WordPerfect lor 


2.0 


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WorksPlus Command 


2.0 


2Ma^E.03 


1/90 


$35 


WorksPlus Spell 


2.0 


IMaS.03 


1/90 


$35 


WriloNow 


2.2 


S12K/4.2 


9/90 


$49 



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Service 

701 3+Mail for Macintosh 

3Com Corp.; 408/562- 
6400, 800/638-3266. 

702 3+ Share 3Com Corp.; 
408/562-6400, 
800/638-3266. 

703 4th Dimension ACIUS; 
408/252-4444, 
800/538-8157. 

O 

704 Adobe Font Software 

Downloacler Adobe 
Systems; 415/961-4400, 
800/833-6687. 

705 Adobe Type Manager, Adobe 
Type Reunion Adobe 
Systems; 4 1 5/96 1 -4400, 
800/833-6687. 

707 Alarming Events ClI 

Software; 515/224-1995. 
70S allShare Evcry'^^'are; 416/ 
569-3568. 800/668-6977. 

709 Apple II Workstation Card 
Apple Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

710 AppleShare FileServer 2.0 
Apple Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

711 AppleTalk Internet Router 
Apple Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

O 

712 BelTaik Belkin Compo- 
nents; 213/515-7585, 
800/223-5546. 

713 Bomber Inline Design; 
203/364-0063. 

714 BroadTalk to LocalTalk 
Gateway Cactus 
Computer; 214/416- 
0525. 619/490-5050. 



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Service 

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715 Carbon Copy Mac 
Microcom; 617/551- 
1000, 800/822-8224. 

716 cc:Mail LAN Package for 
Macintosh cc:Mail; 
415/961-8800, 
800/448-2500. 

717 CompuNet Trimar 
USA; 212./645-7008, 
800/872-4454. 

718 CompuServe Information 
Manager CompuSeiTc; 
614/457-8600, 
800/348-8199. 

719 CompuServe Navigator 
CompuServe; 

61 4/^457-8600, 
800/348-8199. 

720 CompuTalk, CompuTalk Plus 

AESP; 305/944-7710, 
800/446-2377. 

722 ComTalk APT Communi- 
cations; 301/831-1182, 

800. /842-0626. 

723 C-Server Solana 
Electronics; 
619/490-5050. 

O 

724 DaynaTalk Dayna 
Communications; 
801/531-0203. 

725 DaynaTalk MC Card Dayna 
Communications; 
801/531-0203. 

726 DaynaTalk PC Card 
Dayna Communications; 

801. /531-0203. 

727 Desk Zedcor; 602/88 1- 
8101,800/482-4567. 

729 Diy2 Dayna Communica- 
tions; 801/531-0203. 

730 Dl/2000 Dayna 
Communications; 
801/531-0203. 

731 DocuComp Advanced 
Software; 408/733-0745, 
800/346-5392. 

732 DOS Connect Shiva Corp.; 
617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

733 DOS Dial-In Shiva 



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Service 

Corp.; 617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

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734 EasyShare Shirt- 
Pocket Software; 
602/966-7667. 

735 EtherGate Shiva Corp.; 
617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

• Ether-Route Compatible 
Systems Corp.; 
303/444-9532, 
800/356-0283. 

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737 FasiPast Shiva Corp.; 
617/864-8500, 
800,'458-3550. 

731 FaxGate Plus Solutions; 
802 / 865 - 9220 . 

739 FlashBoi OB-9, FlashBox 
BIN-8 Sitka; 
415/769-9669, 
800/445-8677. 

741 FlashCatd Sitka; 
415/769-9669, 
800/445-8677. 

742 FoiBase4-/Mac Fo.x 
Software; 

419/874-0162. 

o 

743 GatorBox Cayman 
Systems; 6 1 7/494- 1 999 . 

744 Great Gantt Varcon 
Svsicms; 619/563-6700. 

O 

745 Hayes Connect Hayes 
Microcomputer 
Products; 

404/441-1617. 

74S Hercules Network Card Plus 

Hercules Computer 
Technology; 
415..'540-6000, 
800 / 532 - 0600 . 

747 H-Server Solana 
Electronics; 
619/490-5050. 

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748 if:x Forms Designer 



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Service 

SoftView; 805/385-5000, 
800/622-6829. 

749 ImageWriter ll/LQ LocalTalk 
Option Apple Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

750 InBox Sitka; 4 15/769- 
9669, 800/445-8677. 

751 In/Out CE Software; 
515/224-1995. 

752 Inside Information 
Microlvaics; 716,^48- 
9150, 800/828-6293. 

753 InterBridge Hayes 
Microcomputer 
Products; 

404/441-1617. 

* InterTalk 2 P-Ingenierie; 
415/896-0708. 

754 IPT230/A AppleTalk Interface 
Card Information 
Presentation Technol- 
ogy; 818/347-7791. 
800/233-9993. 

755 l-Server Solana 
Electronics; 
619/490-5050. 

75S Ishido .Accolade; 
408/985-1700. 

O 

757 LANstar AppleTalk Bridge 

Northern Telecom; 

408/988-5550, 

800/328-8800. 

758 LapLink Mac III Network 
Pac Traveling Software; 
206/483-8088. 
800/662-2652. 

759 LaserSafe Iomega Corp.; 
801/778-1000, 
800/456-5522. 

760 LaserScript Abaton, a 
Subsidiary of Everex 
Systems; 415/683-2226, 
800/444-5321. 

761 LaserWriter Font Utility 
Bitstream; 

617/497-6222. 

762 Legends of the Lost Realm 
Avalon Hill; 
800/999-3222. 

763 Liaison Infospherc; 
503/226-3620, 

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800/445-7085. 

764 LocalTalk Apple 
Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

765 LocalTalk Connector Kit 
DIN 8 Apple Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

766 LocalTalk PC Card Apple 
Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

767 LT2D0 Connection MC. 

LT200 Connection PC 
DayStar Digital; 
404/967-2077, 
800/962-2077. 

769 Mac CPUs and Peripherals 

Apple Computer; 
408/996-1010. 

771 MacDraft Innovative 
Data Design; 
415/680-6818. 

771 MacGateWay AT The 
Wollongong Group; 
415/962-7100, 
800/962-8649. 

773 MacIrmaLan 802.2 Gateway 
Server Digital 
Communications 
Associates; 404/442- 
4000, 800/241-4762. 

774 MacIrmaLan SDLC 
Gateway2 Server Digital 
Communications 
Associates; 404/442- 
4000, 800/241-4762. 

776 MacMainFrame Token 
Ring Gateway Avatar 
Corp.; 508/435-6872, 
800/282-3270. 

777 MacMainFrame SDLC 
Gateway Avatar Corp.; 
508/435-6872, 
800/282-3270. 

771 MacSki XOR Corp.; 
612/941-0906, 
800/635-2425. 

779 Magic Typist Tactic 
Software; 305/378- 
4110, 800/344-4818. 

711 Markup Mainstay; 

818/991-6540. 

7B1 MasterJuggler AlSoft, 
713/353-4090. 

762 MaxWay 500 Tri-Data 
Systems; 408/727-3270, 
800/874-3282. 

* Microsoft Mail Micro- 
soft Corp.; 206/882- 
8080, 800/426-9400. 

783 ModuNet Data Spec; 
818/772-9977. 

784 ModuNet EZ Data Spec; 
818/772-9977. 



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Service 

785 More Symantec Corp.; 
408/253-9600, 
800/441-7234. 

786 MultiGate 2000 Network 
Resources Corp.; 
408/263-8100. 

O 

787 NetAxcess Andrew 
KMW Systems; 512/338- 
3000, 800/531-5167. 

788 NetBridge Shiva Corp.; 
617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

789 NetModem V.32 Shiva 
Corp.; 617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

790 NetModem V2400 Shiva 
Corp.; 617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

791 NetSerial Shiva Corp.; 
617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

792 NetWare Novell; 
801/379-5900, 
800/526-5463. 

793 NetWaylOOO Tri-Data 
Systems; 408/727-3270, 
800/874-3282. 

794 NetWay 2000 Tri-Data 
Systems; 408/727-3270, 
800/874-3282. 

795 Network Bundle for the 
Macintosh Sitka; 
415/769-9669, 
800/445-8677. 

796 Newport Data Modems, 
Newport Fax/Data Modems 
Xecom; 408/945-6640. 

O 

798 OrchidFax Orchid 
Technology; 415/683- 
0373, 800/767-2443. 

O 

799 Personal Server Network 

Information Presenta- 
tion Technologies; 
818/347-7791, 
800/233-9993. 

809 PhoneNet Connector 
Farallon Computing; 
415/596-9100. 

101 PhoneNet Liaison 

Farallon Computing; 
415/596-9100. 

802 PhoneNet Repeater 
Farallon Computing; 
415/596-9100. 

803 PhoneNet StarConnector 
Farallon Computing; 
415/596-9100. 

804 PhoneNet StarController 
Farallon Computing; 



Roader 

Service 

415/596-9100. 

885 PhotoLink Photonics 
Corp.; 408/370-3033, 
800/628-3033. 

806 Pipe Dream Electronic 
Arts; 415/571-7171, 
800/245-4525. 

* Public Folder Claris 
Corp.; 408/987-7000. 

807 Pyware Music Writer 
Pygraphics; 817/481- 
7536, 800/222-7536. 

O 

808 D-Talk Laser Connec- 
tion; 205/633-7223. 

809 QuadPortll Xecom; 
408/945-6640. 

810 QuickMail CE Software; 
515/224-1995. 

811 QuickNet Infotek; 
516/289-9682. 

812 QuikNet Belkin 
Components; 213/515- 
7585, 800/223-5546. 

O 

B13 Repeater Sitka; 
415/769-9669. 
800/445-8677. 

IH R-Setvei Solana 
Electronics; 
619/490-5050. 

o 

815 Send Express Gizmo 
Technologies; 
415/623-7899. 

816 Sky Shadow Casady& 
Greene; 408/624-8716, 
800/359-4920. 

817 Smart Alarms with 
Appointment Diary 
JAM Software; 
415/663-1041. 

BIB Smartmodem 240QM 

Hayes Microcomputer 
Products; 

404/441-1617. 

81S Smartmodem 9600 Hayes 
Microcomputer 
Products; 404/44 1-1617. 

820 SpeedGuard Collision 
Filter Dayna Communi- 
cations; 801/531-0203. 

821 SpeedTalk EMAC, a 
division of Everex 
Systems; 415/683-2222, 
800/821-0806. 

822 StarBurst Cactus Com- 
puter; 214/416-0525. 

823 Stratego Accolade; 
408/985-1700. 

Stylist SNA; 609/799- 
9605. 800/628-6442. 



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824 Suitcase II Fifth 
Generation Systems; 
504/291-7221, 
800/873-4384. 

825 SwiftNotes Sterling 
Swift Software; 
512/280-2431. 

826 SyncRouter Engage 
Communication; 
408/688-1021. 

O 

827 Talking Moose Baseline 
Publishing; 901/682- 
9676, 800/926-9676. 

828 TeleBridge Shiva Corp.; 
617/864-8500, 
800/458-3550. 

829 Teleconnector Sitka; 
415/769-9669. 
800/445-8677. 

830 TeleFinder Spider 
Island Software; 
714/669-9260. 

831 Timbuktu Farallon 
Computing; 
415/596-9100. 

832 Timbuktu/Remote 
Farallon Computing; 
415/596-9100. 

833 TurboBridge Nuvotech; 
415/331-7815, 
800,^32-9922. 

834 TurboNet Nuvotech; 
415/331-7815. 
800/232-9922. 

835 TurboNet ST Nuvotech; 
415/331-7815. 
800/232-9922. 

836 TurboStar Nuvotech; 
415/331-7815, 
800 / 232 - 9922 . 

0 

837 Where in Time Is Carmen 
Sandiego Broderbund 
Software; 415/492- 
3200, 800/521-6263. 

838 Word for Word Mac The 
Software Toolworks; 
415/883-3000. □ 

Public domain software, freeware, 
and shareware are available 
through online information 
services; user groups (call 800/ 
538-9696 ext. 500 for information 
on a local user group); or mail- 
order clearinghouses such as 
EDUCORP (800/843-9497, 619/ 
536-9999), or the Public Domain 
Exchange (800/331-8125, 408/ 
496-0624 in California). 

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Add-On America, 52 


79 


Diskette Connection. 299 


189 


MacCenter, 340 


100 


Peachtree Softw'aa*, 36 


— 


Adobe Systems. 38-39, 5 1 


368 


Dr. Mac, Inc., 314-315 


— 


MacConnection, 64-77 


42 


Personal Training Sy'stems, 27 


— 


Agfa-Oimpugraphic, 54 


60 


Educorp, 343 


331 


MacDepot, 3.34-335 


141 


Peter Norton. 246 


— 


Aldus. 138 


154 


Ehman. Inc., 82-83 


270 


Mad nends.28 


287 


Pinnacle Micn>. 45 


35 


Altsys, 62 


144 


Ehman. Inc., 142 


361 


MacFricntls, 133 


356 


PLxar, 125 


49 


American Power Conversion, 1 40 


110 


EMAC, 262 


254 


MacFriends, 257 


198 


Ponfolio Systems, 129 


— 


Amhro, 8 


64 


EM/VC, 262 


264 


Macland, 324-327 


54 


Ponfolio Sy^stems, 131 


— 


Apple Computer, 5-7 


184 


ERI Direct. 305 


40 


MacPrtKluct.s. 330-331 


29 


Prescience, 32 


51 


Applied Engineering, 1 10 


22 


F.M Waxes, 34 1 


320 


MaeShopper, 248 


104 


QMS. 106 


124 


Appoint, 1 18 


152 


Fox St)ftw;ire. 239B 


142 


Mad el Technology, 332 


295 


Quark, 126 


— 


APS. 2400-2418 


318 


GCC Technologies. 59 


78 


Mae Warehouse, 156-167 


178 


Radius, 14-15 


56 


As;inte’ Tech. 116N 


11 


GCC Technologies, 61 


— 


Macworld l-xpo S.F., 222-225 


84 


RasterOps, 284 


120 


Aunt .Systems, 52 


218 


GCC 'rechnologies, 63 


70 


Mat /.one, llie. 274-283 


111 


Reference Softw'are, 58 


lOH 


Avery, 292 


317 


GD1' Softxvorks, 80 


207 


Mass Micros)'siems, 90 


239 


Sceurc-lt, 289 


5 


Oeverly Hills Oimputer, 328 


36 


Global Village Comm.. 1 1 2 


37 


Meca, 233 


396 


Sensible Softw-are, 26 


14 


Bitstream. 8-i 


— 


Hard Drixes. 329 


161 


Micron Technok>gx'. 93 


— 


Shiva Corp., 13 


— 


Bottomline, 338-339 


87 


Hartlware F.xprev*, 3.37 


116 


MicniNet Technology', 152 


62 


Sigma. 243B 


155 


Braemar, 305 


383 


Hayes. 1 15 


398 


MicroNct Technology. 258 


298 


Silicon Beach Software, 53 


— 


Broderbund, 114 


— 


Hexvleti-Packartl, 26-1-273 


— 


Microsoft, IFC-1, 302-303 


— 


SNA, Inc., 62 


HI 


Buick Motor Division, HI 


174 


Houghton Mifllin, Sftwr Div., 342 


90 


Micnnech International, 221 


— 


SNA, Inc., 124 


39 


Bull City/'Mysterium 


192 


I.D.S, Systems, 92 


68 


Microtek Lib, Inc., 109 


367 


SofiSymo'BLOC Publishing. 89 




Tremendum, 80 


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Image Club, 148 


43 


Microtek Lib, Inc., ill 


94 


Softview, Inc., 10-1 1 


362 


Caere Corporation, 34-35 


260 


Iomega. 150 


4 


Micro'l'mich .Systems, 48 


48 


.Software Ventures, 16 


164 


Canon USA, 94 


21 


Jam Softxvare, 342 


363 


Mirror rechntilogles, 4 1 


208 


Sony Corp., 300 


99 


CD Technolog>\ 87 


369 


jasmine, 10-1 


.341 


Mirror I'echnologies. 43 


309 


Supermac, 20-2 1 


32 


CDA Computer Sales. 2.39A-243A 


167 


Jxsmine, 122 


243 


Mirror Tc'chnologies, 49 


88 


.Symantec, 116W-1I7W 


33H 


Cn Stifrware, 22 


366 


Jasmine, 134-135 


28 


Multi-Ad Semtes, 40 


237 


Symantec, 286. 288 


357 


Central Point Software, 120-121 


— 


Kensingitin Microware, 31. BC 


196 


National Semiconductor. 44 


332 


T/Makcr Company. 12 


— 


Chcxkfree, 290 


112 


Kodak. 253 


314 


NI'C Technologies. 56-57 


33 


TBSP, 78 


227 


Claris. 105 


271 


Kodak-Diconix, 116B 


— 


.NEC Technologies, 230 


76 


Teleware. 79 


319 


CompuServe, 1 19 


145 


La Cie, 25 


— 


NeoView, 3i»9 


179 


Texas .Mac Stuf. 332-333 


61 


Computer Friends, 124 


197 


U Cie, C3 


335 


Now Software, 42 


114 


Third Wave Computing, .306 


IHH 


Contemporary Cybernetics. 261 


342 


lo-serMax, 123 


194 


Ocean Microsystems. 242B 


26 


Timeworks, 235 


20 


Curtis Manufacturing, 50 


322 


Leonard Development (iroup, 9 


352 


Odesta, 1.37 


47 


’Trendsetter Softwjire, 309 


45 


DataViz, 29 


— 


letraset, 1 13, 228 


162 


Odesta, 289 


24 


Tri Data, 1 17N 


27.3 


Daysiar Digital, 130 


183 


l.experlise, 1-14 


.370 


On 1'ecbnology, 8 


1 


Truevision. 147 


283 


Daystar Digital. 132 


224 


Ubeny Systems, .309 


82 


Orange Micro, 60 


85 


Ventura Publisher, 95 


300 


Dai-star Digital. 136 


209 


Mac s Plate, 316-32:3 


115 


Panasonic, 296 


23 


Wacom Co., lid., 146 


241 


IX'Ji. 46-47 


168 


.MacAcademy, |5 | 


21.3 


Paracomp, .33 


55 


Zcdcor. 4 


346 


Dcneba Software, 19 


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MacAxenuc, 96-103 


253 


Paragon Concepts, 310 







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BUSINESS 
— Aldus, 138 
227 Claris. 105 
152 Fox Sofrwarc, 239B 
322 Leonard Development Group, 9 
37 Meca,233 

— Microsoft, IFC-l, 302-303 
335 Now Softw'are, 42 
352 Odcsta, 137 
162 Odcsta, 289 
100 Peachtree Software, 36 
42 Personal Training S>'stems, 27 
141 Peter Norton. 246 
198 Portfolio Systems, 129 

54 Portfolio Systems, 1 3 1 
29 Prescience. 32 

111 Reference Software, 58 
— SNA, Inc., 62. 124 
367 SoftSync/BLOC Puljlishing, 89 
94 Sofo’iew, Inc., 10-11 
332 T/'Maker Company. 12 
33 TrBSP,78 
76 Teleware, 79 

47 Trendsetter Software. 309 

55 Zedcor. 4 

VERTICAL 

213 Paracomp, 33 
100 Peachtree Software, 36 
29 Prescience, 32 
367 SoftSync/BLOC Publishing. 89 
33 TBSP. 78 

DATA MANAGEMENT 

55 Zcdcor, 4 

WORD PROCESSING 
346 Deneba Software. 19 
183 Lexpertise, 144 
253 Paragon Concepts, 310 
111 Reference Software, 58 
396 Sensible Software. 26 
88 Symantec, 1 16W- 1 ITW 
332 TAlaker Company, 12 
55 Zcdcor, 4 

COMMUNICATION 
340 Add-On America. 52 
273 Daysiar Digital, 130 
283 Da>-star Digital, 132 
300 Da^-star Digital, 136 
24 1 DCA Macirma. 46-47 
196 National Semiconductor, 44 
287 Pinmacle Micro. 45 

48 Soft^vare Ventures, 16 

EDUCATIONAL 

39 Bull Cire/Mysterium 
'rremendum, 80 
183 Lexpertise, 144 
168 MacAcademy, 154 
42 Personal Training Sj-stems, 27 

FONTS 

— Adobe Systems, 5 1 

— Broderbund. 114 

— Image Club. 148 

— Lctrasei, 113 

GRAPHICS/DESKTOP PUBLISHING 

— Adobe Systems. 5 1 

— Aldus, 138 
35 Altsys, 62 

14 Bitstream, 84 

— Broderbund, 114 
227 Claris, 105 

6l Computer Friends, 124 



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22 FM Waves, 34 1 
— Image Club, 148 
— Lctraset, 1 13, 228 
183 Lexpertise, 144 
207 Mass Microsystems, 90 
28 Multi-Ad Services, 40 
213 Paracomp, 33 

356 Pixar, 125 
295 Quark. 126 

84 RasterOps. 28-i 

298 Silicon Beach Sofru’are, 53 
26 Timeworks, 235 

85 Ventura Publisher, 95 

PERSONAL BUSINESS/HOME 
— Checkfree, 290 
198 Portfolio Systems, 1 29 
54 Portfolio Systems, 131 
94 Softvie%v, Inc., 10-11 

ENTERTAINMENT 
39 Bull City/Mysterium 
Tremendum, 80 

NETWORKING 

340 Add-On America. 52 

SECURITY 

— Kensington .Microware, 31 
335 Now Software. 42 

UTILITIES 

108 Aver>', 292 

357 Central Point Software, 120-121 
317 GDT Softworks, 80 

21 Jam Software, 342 
28 Multi-Ad Services, 40 
370 On Technology. 8 
l4l Peter Norton. 246 
237 Symantec. 286, 288 

MISCELIANEOUS 
— .Aldus, 138 
60 Educorp, 343 
317 GDT Softw-orks, 80 
174 Houghton Mifllin, Sfiwr DIv., 342 
198 Portfolio SyTiteins, 129 
54 Portfolio Sy'stems, 131 
33 TBSP. 78 



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COMPUTER SYSTEMS 

— Apple Computer. 5-7 

32 CDA Computer Sales, 239A-243.A 
87 Hardware Express. 337 

270 MacFriends. 28 
361 MacFriends, 133 
254 MacFriends, 257 

142 MacTel Technology, 332 

— NcoView, 309 

PRINTERS 

— Agfa-Compugraphic. 54 
318 GCC Technologies. 59 

1 1 GCC Technologies. 6 1 
218 GCC TcchnoIogic*s. 63 

— Hewlett-Packard. 264-273 
112 Kod.ik, 253 

271 Kodak-Diconix, 1 16B 
342 loserMax, 123 

43 Microtek Lib, Inc., 1 1 1 

— NEC Technologies, 230 
115 Panasonic, 296 

104 QMS. 106 

BOARDS 

56 Asante’ Tech, 1 16N 
6l Computer Friends, 124 



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283 I>a>TJtarDigitaI, 132 
300 Daystar Digital. 136 
207 .Mass Microsystems, 90 
16 1 Micron Tc*chnoIogy, 93 
196 National Semiconductor, 44 
82 Orange Micm, 60 
84 RasterOps, 284 
1 Truevision, 147 



DIGITiZERS/SCANNERS 

362 Caere Corponition, 34-35 
164 Canon USA. 94 

61 Computer Friends. 124 
1 10 E.MAC, 262 

64 EMAC, 262 
— Hewlett-Packard. 264-273 
145 ijCic, 25 
197 U Cie, C3 
68 Microtek Lib, Inc., 109 

DISPLAY 

120 Aura Systems, 52 
154 Ehnian, Inc., 82-83 

144 Ehman, Inc.. I42 

363 Mirror Technologies, 4 1 
314 NEC Technologies, 56-57 

62 Sigma. 243B 

MODEMS 

340 Add-On America, 52 

51 Applied Engineering, 1 10 
36 Global Village Comm., 112 
383 Hayes. 115 

— Shiva Corp., 13 

HARD DISKS/STORAGE 

51 Applied Engineering, 1 10 

— .APS, 240B-241B 
99 CD Technology, 87 

188 Contemporary Cybernetics, 261 
318 GCC Technologies, 59 
1 1 GCC Technologies. 61 
218 GCC Technologies, 63 
192 I D S. Systems, 92 
260 Iomega, 150 
369 Jasmine, 104 
167 Jasmine, 122 
366 Jasmine, 134-135 

145 U Cle, 25 
197 Li Cie, C3 

224 Liberty .Systems, 309 
40 MacProducts, 330-331 
142 MacTel Technology, 332 
116 MicroNei Technology. 152 
398 MicroNet Tc-chnolog>’, 258 
90 .Microiech International, 221 

34 1 .Mirror Technologies, 43 
194 Ocean Micro.systems, 242B 
287 Pinnacle .Micro, 45 

VIDEO 

40 MacProtIucLs, 330-33 1 
207 Mass Microsystems, 90 
16 1 Micron Technology, 93 
82 Orange Micni, 60 
84 RasterOps, 284 
1 Truevision, 147 



EXPANSIONS/UPGRADES 
51 .Applied Engineering, 1 10 
120 Aura Systems. 52 
16 1 .Micron Technology, 93 

SOFTWARE SECURITY DEVICES 
49 American Power Conversion, 140 
— Kensington MIcrow’are, 3 1 
239 Securc-li, 289 



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Curtis .Manufacturing, 50 


110 


EMAC, 262 


64 


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23 


Wacom Co., Ltd., 146 




MISCELLANEOUS 


120 


Aura Systems, 52 


60 


Educorp, 343 


243 


Mirror Technologies, 49 


178 


Radius, 14-15 


24 


Tri Data, 1 17N 


23 


Wacom Co., Ltd., 146 


Accessories 




FLOPPY DISKS/HOLOERS 


208 


Sony Corp., 3IK) 




FURNITURE 


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Anthm, 8 


296 


ScanCo, 30 




SERVICES 


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CompuServe. 119 


168 


.MaoXcademy, 154 




MISCELLANEOUS 


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Aver}', 292 


81 


Buick Motor Division. 81 


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Micro'lbuch Systems, 48 


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ScanCo, 30 


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APS, 240B-241B 


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Beverly Hills Computer, 328 


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Bottomline. 338-339 


155 


Braemar, 305 


32 


CDA Computer Sales, 239.A-243A 


79 


Diskette Connection, 299 


368 


Dr. Mac. Inc , 314-315 


60 


Iklucorp, 343 


184 


ERI Direct. 305 


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Hard Drivt*s, 329 


87 


1 larciwarc Express, 337 


209 


Mac's Place, 316-323 


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MacAvenue, 96-103 


189 


MacCenter, 340 


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MacConnection, 64-77 


331 


MacDepot, 334-335 


270 


MacFriends. 28 


361 


MacFriends. 133 


254 


MacFriends. 257 


264 


.MacLind, 324-327 


40 


MacProducts, 330-331 


320 


.MaeShopper, 248 


142 


MacTcI Technology, 332 


78 


MacWarehousc, 156-167 


70 


MaeZone, The, 274-283 


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NeoVlew, 309 


179 


Texas Mac Stuf . 332-333 


114 


lltird Wave Computing. 306 


47 


Trendsetter Software, 309 



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Adobe Type Manager 55 

Adobe TypeSet 1 or 2 55 

Adobe Typo Align 58 

StreamLine 224 

Photoshop 489 

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Inspiration 


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Quickmail 10 User 


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Cncket Graph „124 

CONNECTIX 

Virtual 113 

CUSTOM AP^^LICATIONS 

Freedom of Press 249 

DELTA POINT 

DoltaGraph 105 

DIGITALK 

Smalltalk/'V Mac 1 1 9 

DREAMMAKER SOFTWARE 

Cliptures Vol 1 , 2. or 3 65 

MacGallery 26 

DYNAWARE 

DynaPerspective 3D 692 

ELECTRONIC ARTS 

Studio 8 279 

FARALLON 

Timbuktu 88 

Timbuktu Remote 126 

FRANKLIN SOFTWARE 

Language Master 57 




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FREESOFT 

White Knight 81 

HYPERPRESS 

PictureLink 141 

ICOM SIMULATIONS 

On Cue 34 

MacKern 56 

TMON 85 

HyperTMON 56 

Formulalor 56 

INFORMIX 

WingZ 238 

INNOVATIVE DATA DESIGN 

Dreams 315 

MacDraft 185 

INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT 

MacPrint 89 

INSIGNIA 

Soft PC 242 

LANGUAGE SYSTEMS 

Fortran with MPW 398 

Wild Things 119 

LAYERED SOFTWARE 

AtOnce 275 

Insight Expert per modulo 388 

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MacProof 104 




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MANAPRO 

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METRO IMAGEBASE 

Art Deco 

Business Graphics ... 



..435 

..125 



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213 



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Aavery 




MACLABELPRO $47 

Jazz up your mailings with features 
such as preset layouts for Avery laser 
labels and dot matrix labels, drawing 
tools and graphic sizina, built in clip art 
and easy mail merge. Compatible with 
Apple ImageWriter, LaserWriter, and 
HP DeskWriter. 



MICROCOM 

Carbon Copy Mac 1 15 

Virex 55 

Virex 10 Pack 345 

MICROFRONTIER 

Enhance 229 

MICROLYTICS 

Inside Information 63 

Gofer 52 

Wordlindor 34 

MICROSOFT 

Word 4.0 243 

Excel 243 

Help lor Excel with Excel purchase 25 

Power Point 243 

Microsoft Office 522 

NOW SOFTWARE 

ScreenLocker 43 

Now Utilities 86 

ODESTA CORPORATION 

Double Helix 335 

Data Desk 465 

OLDUVAI 

Videopaint 269 

ON TECHNOLOGY 

On Location 71 

PANTONE 

Process Color Imaging Guide 46 

PARACOMP 

Model Shop 369 

Swivel 3D 289 

Swivel 3D Professional 429 

PARAGON 

Nisus 238 




DISKDOUBLER $43 

Expand your disk drive capacity. Fast, 
easy and safe, DiskDoubler 
dramatically increases the storage 
capacity of any Mac Drive. 
"Performance is outstanding," 
evaluates MacUser magazine, 

July 1990 (4 1/2 mice rating). 



POWER UP 

Address Book Plus 51 

Address Book Plus with Binder 75 

Calendar Creator 35 

Fast Forms 86 

PREFERRED PUBLISHING 

DAtabase 65 

Exposure Pro 65 

Personality! 49 

PRE PRESS TECHNOLOGIES 

SpectreSeps— Quark/Pagemaker . 195 

SpectreScan 299 

QMS 

UltraScript 114 

QUARK 

QuarkXPress 509 

QuarkStyle 163 

REALITY TECHNOLOGIES 

WealthBuilder 159 

REFERENCE SOFTWARE 

Gramatik Mac 47 

SALIENT 

DiskDoubler 42 

SENSIBLE SOFTWARE 

Sensible Grammar S-D 

Book Ends 50 

SILICON BEACH SOFTWARE 

Super Paint 2.0 123 

Digital Darkroom 244 

Supercard 185 

SITKA 

Network Bundle for MAC 1 79 

Network Bundle for DOS 149 

TOPS Flashcard 149 

SOFTVIEW 

if:X Forms Designer 164 

Business Expense Reports 47 

Quarterly Payroll Tax 84 

SOFTWARE DISCOVERIES 

RecordHoldor Plus 78 

SOFTWARE VENTURES 

Microphone II 209 

SOLUTi6nS INTERNATIONAL 

Smartscrap 46 

SuperGlue II £9 

The Curator 69 




MACTODLS DELUXE $72 

MacTools Deluxe brings you the most 
powerful collection of disk and data 
recovery, hard disk backup, disk 
optimization and file management 
utilities available — at any price. 



i&$49 \ 

nanoseconds . j 



STRATA 

Strata Vision 3D 348 

StrataFlight 119 

STUDIOTRONICS 

Colorset 209 

SUPERMAC 

Pixel Paint Professional 385 

Pixel Paint 226 

SYMANTEC 

More 262 

Norton Utilities 79 

SAM 63 

SUM II 104 

Think C 4.0 159 

TACTIC SOFTWARE 

Clairvoyant 45 

Icon Itl 45 

Sound Clips 45 

ArtClips 45 

ArlFonts 45 

FontShare 125 

TELETYPESETTING 

TScript 39 

TIMEWORKS 

Publish it' Mac 219 

Publish it' Mac Easy 109 

T-MAKER 

Wnte Now 1 15 

ClickArt From 33 

VERTICAL SOLUTIONS 

FastLabel 36 

FastEnvelope 48 

WORDPERFECT CORP. 

WordPerfect 208 

ZEDCOR 

Desk 209 



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b) Money 



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Mac Systems - Lowest Pricing CALL 
ABATON 

Interfax Fax-modem 24/96 358 

256 Grey Scale Scanner -»-Int 1269 

PostScript Laser Printer 1995 

ABCOM 

Extended Carry Case for SE 76 

Carry Case for Mac Ilex or 

Imagewriter 76 

CAERE 

The Typist 495 

CAYMAN SYSTEMS 

GatorBox 1 890 

GatorCard E/ll for Mac II 432 

COMPATIBLE SYSTEMS 

Ether Route 1045 

Ether Plus 398 

Ether II 316 

DART PRODUCTS 

Toner ZipKit 34 






COLORPAGET16 2195 

E-Machines ColorPage T16 is a 16- 
inch Trinitron monitor that gives you 
70% more viewing area than the Apple 
13-inch. MacUser Labs, May, 1990, 
called the ColorPage T1 6, "The winner 
and still champion..." and gave it the 
highest rating of 5 mice. 



DATADESK 

Mac -101 Keyboard 127 

Mac - 101 Keyboard (for Plus) 119 

DEST 

Mac Scan 3000 plus Recognize .. 1361 

Personal Scan 669 

E-MACHINES 

ColorPage T16 2195 

Full Line Available CALL 



MARSTEK-800/MA064(800dpO .$399 
MARSTEK-105/MAC-64(400dpO ..$349 
Scan directly from Digital Darkroom 
with the only 800 dpi hand scanner. 
And with 64 gray scales, you'll be 
ama2e^UTOwhue^^2^ 



ERGOTRON 

MacTilt 66 

FARALLON 

MacRecorder 155 

PhoneNET Star Controller 300 799 

PhoneNET Star Controller EN 1575 

HEWLETT PACKARD 

Desk Writer 749 

ScanJet Plus 1688 

Paint Writer 2395 

Laser Printers Call 

ICD 

Graflex 83 

IDS 

Pro series 20 Meg 379 

Pro series 40 Meg 442 

Pro series 80 Meg 719 

Pro series 200 Meg 1198 

Wip - Same prices as above 

IKEGAMI 

MacLangelo 24 bit color system ..3695 
MacLangelo 8 bit color system .... 2495 
IOMEGA 

Benoulli II Single 44 Meg CALL 

Benoulli II Dual 44 Meg CALL 

l-PROTECT 

Radiation Shield for SE/Plus 69 

Radiation Shield (or MAC II 75 

KENSINGTON 

Turbo Mouse 106 

Mac II Stand & Cables 62 

Masterpiece Mac II 101 



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Keyboard, inc. Tempo II 118 

KINETICS 

Ether Port II 484 

Fast Path 4 (now by Shiva) 1975 



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• Credit card is not charged until order is 
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FullWrite Professional combines 
advanced word processing, graphics 
and page layout power. Full Impact 
combines the power of spreadsheets 
with the impact of color graphics for 
superb presentations. (Compatible 
with Excel 1.5 and 2.2) 



KODAK 

Diconix M150 Portable Printer 499 

LASERMASTER 

LaserMax CALL 

MARSTEK 

Mac- 105 incl. Digital Darkroom 349 

Mac-800 incl. Digital Darkroom 399 

MASS MICRO 

ColorSpace CALL 

Data Pak 799 

Quickimage 24 699 

MEGA GRAPHICS 

19- Rival System, SE. SE<'30, II ... 1045 

19' Rival System Plus 1 145 

19' Sony Color II, Ilex 3595 

MICROTEK 

Flatbed MSF-300GS 1368 

Flatbed MSF-400GS 2775 

Color Scanner MSF-300ZS 1798 

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Removable Hard Drive CALL 

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UnMouse 179 



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A 2400 bps data modem! A 9600 bps 
SEND.'RECEIVE fax! Includes Maxfax 
software and its many exclusive 
features, like grey scale capability, 
plus MAcKNOWLEDGE 
communications software and a 
Macintosh cable. A complete 
communications package! 



NEC 

MacSync 499 

CDR35 Portable CD Rom 395 

CDR77 Intersect External CD Rom 395 

ColorMate PS 6775 

Silent Writer 2 290 1795 

NEOTECH 

ImageGrabber 1295 

NEWGEN 

Turbo PS 400 3999 

Turbo PS 480 5549 



ETHERROUTE $1045 

Connects LocalTalk and Ethernet 
networks together with high-speed 
dedicated routing hardware. Supports 
two LocalTalk ports and both thick and 
thin Ethernet. Includes advanced 
hardware features, sophisticated 
management software, and AppleTalk 
Phase I and II support. 



ORCHID TECHNOLOGY 

MaeSprint II 209 

MacFax/Modem 9600 Baud 435 

PLI (PERIPHERAL LAND) 

Infinity 40 Removable Hard DriveCALL 

Cartridges 79 

Optical Drive 635 Mb 3795 

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS 

Cordless Mouse 95 

Power Strip 59 

PROMETHEUS 

MaxFax 24/96 265 

MiniFax 24/48 145 

MiniModem 2400 115 

ProModem 9600 174 

ProModem/Fax 96,'96 665 

QMS 

ColorScript 100 7495 

PS 810 2995 

QUICKTEL 

2400 Baud Modem inc. software ... 1 19 
24/48 Modem/SendFax & software 129 
RADIUS 

19' Two Page Display 969 

Pivot Display 735 



PICTURELINK $141 

PictureLink add "Import and Export" 
imaging capabilities to the 4th 
MENSION and FileForce database 
management systems. Import scanned 
images, catalog images with integrated 
data, or edit any picture to meet your 
needs. 

RASTEROPS 

ColorBoard 264 for II or SE/30 ... CALL 

ColorBoard 364 CALL 

ClearView System 19" CALL 

ProColor 724 System 19" CALL 

SEIKO 

14" CJolor Monitor 625 

20" Color Monitor 2265 



RECORD HOLDER PLUS $78 

The one non-relational data manager 
that makes full use of the Macintosh 
interface. It includes all the graphics 
capabilities and data managing options 
you’ll ever need, plus an easy-to-follow 
tutorial, and over a hundred help 
screens. 



SHARP 

JX-450 Color Scanner & Int. 
JX-300 Color Scanner & Int. 

Color Printers 

SHIVA 

EtherGate 

Netmodem v.32 9600 BPS .. 
SIMMS 

1 Meg. Simms 100. 80,70 ns 
SONY 

1304 Color Monitor 

SUPRA 

2400 Baud External Modem 
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WACOM 

Digitizing Tablets 

Circle 368 on 



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Illustrator 3.0 $355 



Adobe (V//A TM 2. Oj Powerful 
new features: expanded toolbox 
a simple instruction bar and 
type handling and font editing features 
for limitless integration of 
into your designs. Includes Adobe 
Type Manager 2.0 



FastLabel $45 

Vertical Solutions Print any size la- 
bel on any Mac compatible printer! 
Use FastLabel’s pre-formatted tem- 
plates or create your own. Import text 
and graphics from almost any applica- 
tion for custom labels in seconds. 



Business 


A Lasting Impression 




ResumS Expert Series (All Titles) 40. 


ACIUS 




4th Dimension 2.0 


459 


File Fnrce 


245. 


AEC Management Systems 


FastTrack Schedule VI. 5 


139. 


ASD Software Inc. 




FileGuard 2.5 


139. 


Planisoft 


139. 


Blyth Software 




Omnis 5 Single User 


675. 


Caere 




OmniPage 2.1 


529. 


Casady & Greene 




Ame 1-10 Users - 


969. 


CE Software 




Quickmail22(10Users) 


308. 


Quickmaif 2.211-5 Users) 


208. 


Quickmail Z 2 (50 Users) 


....1568. 


Chang Labs 




CA.T. Ill 


279. 


CheckMark Software 




Cash Ledger 


113. 


Multiledger 1.3 


229. 


Payroll 


172. 


Claris 




FileMaker Pro 


225. 


MacProject II 2.1 


364. 


MaeWrile II 


142. 


CompuServe 




CompuServe Navigator 


48. 


CompuServe Starter Kit 


21. 


Service/Navigator Bundle ... 


65. 


Computer Associates 


SimplyAccounting V 1.1 


221. 


Cricket Graph 1.31 


99. 


Oataviz 




Maclink Plus PC 4.0 W/Cable ... 1 18. 


Maclink Translators 


98. 


DeltaPoint 




DeltaGraph 1,5 


94. 



text 



Insignia Solutions 




Works 2.0b 


176. 


SoftPC for the Mac Portable ... 


..239. 


Microsoft Press 




Soft PC 


..244. 


Working With Word 


...18. 


SoftPC-AT/EGA Module 


..125, 


Nolo Press 




Intuit 




Will Maker 3.0 


...32. 


Quicken 1.5 


.,,.35. 


Odesta 




Kiwi Software Inc. 




Oatadesk Professional 2.0 


.479. 


KivziEnvelopes! 


...34. 


Double Helix Release 3 III 


,369. 


KiwiFinder Extender 


...74. 


Double Helix HI Multiuser 


.289. 


Loxportiso U.S.A. Inc. 




GeoQuery 1.0 


,196. 


MaeProof 


..113. 


Olduvai Softwero 




Mainstay 




Read-lt! 2.1 


.290. 


MacFlow3.12 


..124. 


Read-li! Personal 


,132. 


MacSchodule 2.0 


..126, 


Paragon Courseware 




Moca Software Inc. 




Nisu53!0w.v...r.v.. 


,235, 


Managing Your Money 3.0 


..122.> 


■ Qued-M. »7...:?u;i 


...98 


Micro Planning Software 


Portfolio Systems 




Micro Planner Plus 6. IE 


..325 


Dyriodax Instant Address Book , 


,u'62 


Microsoft 




Power Up) 





Excel 2.2 ....,.f...^239./ 



Mail Server 2.0 



Mail(1 Station) 4 ..y 79. 



Mail (20 Stations) 

Office 

Po’.verPoint 2.01 

Word 4.0 2^9.^ 



..\.....959, Preferred Put 
DAtabase T. 



Baseline 
MacPAKS" 

....30 dayMBG 

INIT Manager*^^ —Locate, reorder, 
manage and analyze all your start up docu- 
ments, $36.00. Color MacCheese^' 1.05— 
First affordable 32-bit color or grayscale paint 
program, $59.00. Talking A4oose^^ —Humor 
for the Mac, 24.00. 



Microsoft Office $519 



Microsoft Includes Word 4.^7, PowerPoint 
'2,01, Excel 2.2, Maikl .37. Plus SuperPaint 
1.5, AutbMac 111, WorpFincler Thesaurus, 
and discount coupons fpr other applications. 
The perfect solution for^powering up your 
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.Address Book-i- Leather Notebook83 

Fast Forms ZO 104 

Latter Writer Plus^^G!!7-i r.. .53. 


Preferred Publishers 

DAtabaseT;:rrr:::^»;^^ 

Exposure 7.77^7... 

\fentaga . 7 .. . 7 - ; 


66. 

50. 

..^,,..50 


Prescience 
ExpressiomsCT? ....r......... 


86. 


Thenrist 


228. 


Pro Plus Software 




Wall Street Investor 


395 


ProVUE 

Panorama 1.5 


245. 


Quark 

Xpress2.12 


519, 


Reference Software 

Grammatik IV 


50 


Satori 

Bulk Mailer 3.2.3 


74. 


Sensible Software 

Bookends 


51. 


Microphone 


51. 


Shana Corporation 

Informed Auto Form 


85. 


Informed Designer 


165. 


Informed MiniManager 


58. 


S.qlt.V,i.ew 


CAR 


MacInTax Pro 


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Software Ventures 

Microphone II v3.0 

Solutions Inc. 

BackFax 159 

Faxgate Plus 235 

MailMaker 10 User Pack 238. 

MailMaker 20 User Pack 399. 

MailMaker 50 User Pack 849. 



Coach Professional 123. 
Comment 2’0^.,.. .7. 62. 

Fox Software 

FoxBASE+/Mac 2.0''?», 289. 

FoxBASE+/Mac MultiOser ........ ^4. 

FoxBASE-H/Mac fliimime .J.«.n’75. 

Freesoft 

Second Sight .99. 

White Knight 11 83.'' 

Hayes 

Smartcomll3.1 83. 

Informix 

Wingzl.l 244. 

Insight Development 

Maeprint 1.2 92. 



Net Serial $274 

Shiva J;ljgh-speed interface be 
tween s'erial peripherals and 
AppleTalk LANs. Any serial 
device (prinfers, plotters, 
minicomputers, scanners, 
modems) can be shared 
by many people. Also al- 
lows the serial device to 
connect anywhere along the 
network. 






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At last It dawned on Ed what made the guy in the next office so happy. It was all those 
calls to Mac's Place. Ed decided to call too. He knew that Mac's Place could help him 
with whatever he needs. Even if he's not sure what he needs. That’s because Mac’s 
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Informed Designer $179 
Mini-Manager $58 , 

Auto Form $85 / 

Shana Automate forms manage- \ 

ment. Design, fill m and manage 
your forms on a Mac. Easy to use, 

Informed provides specific capabilities 
not found anywhere else. Process 
forms faster and ensure accuracy. 

Micro Monitpr/Amp Speaker .... 130. 

MIDI Data Keyboard .’.ly 225; 

MIDI Keyboard Controller 315 

Music Entry Pad .Twr^lB. 

PCM Sound Module 71 B. 

Stereo Mon/Amp Speaker 1 35. 

PROGRAMMING Fuji Disks uft^s 

Addison Wesley Trust your data to tested and 

inside Macintosh Progmrs Series cerufied Fuji disks. Ease orga- 

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H^rcard Handbook 22. • more data away on Fuji High 

O'fl Density disks. 

Smalltalk/VmacVl.l 124. 



Ars Nova 

Practica Musica2.2 68. 

Bogas Productions 
Super Studio Session 2.0 .^64. 

Brodorbund 

Jam Session 29. 

Coda 

Finale 2.0 

Mac Drums .x-31. 

Musicprose !^10B. 

Digidesign 

Audiomedia 798. 

Clip Tunes 152. 

DECK 288. 

MacProteus 698. 

Electronic Arts 

Deluxe Music Con Set 2.5 82. 

Deluxe Recorder 97. 

Great Wave Software 
Concenware Plus Midi V5.0 ....... 97. 

Passport Designs 

Click Tracks IBB. 

Encore 386. 

Maslertracks Pro 4.0 315. 

MIDI Interface 74. 

Midi Transport 269. 

Note Writer II 318. 

Trax 86. 

Roland 

Digital Fader 216. 

Intelligent Arranger 535. 

LA Sound Module 585, 

lA/PCM sound Module 1256. 



Macintosh Music System B9B. 



Aldus 

Freehand 

$325 



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your Mac! One megabyte SIMMS at 
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faster. Includes the most complete 
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Mac’s Policies 

• VISA. MASTERCARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS gladly accepted 

•Your credit card is never charged until your products ship. 

•When we must ship a partial order, no additional freight is charged 

for shipments that complete the order |U.S. only|. 

•Most items carry the manufacturer’s 30 or 60 day Money Back Guar- 
antee (MBG). Mac's Place has a 30 day MOG on all hardware (USA 
Onlyl. Ask for details when ordering. 

• 120 day limited warranty on all products, some hardware items have 
a one or two year warranty. Defective software is replaced immedi- 
ately with like itomisl. Defective hardware items repaired or replaced 
at our descretion. Loan drives subject to availability (in USA Only). 

•Most personal and company checks approved upon receipt to insure 
immediate shipment. Allow one week for checks over $1,000 

•Government. School and Institutional P.O.'s clear immediately (some 
corporate accounts require credit approval, please call). 

•No sales tax (except WA residents add 8.1% to total, including ship- 
ping)- 

•All returns must have an authorization number. Please call BOO'367- 
4222. 

•All prices & promotions subject to change without notice. All items 
subject to availability. Not responsible for typographic errors 

Orders USA: Orders placed weekdays by 7:30 pm E.S.T., 4:30 pm 
P.S.T. for "in stock” items ship same day (barring system fail- 
ure, etc.) for overnight delivery via Airborne Express Rural loca- 
tions may require an additional day for dnlivery. Areas not serviced 
by Airborne v/ill bo sent U.S. Postal service or UPS. Alaska, Hawaii 
orders ship UPS 2nd day air. Our $3.00 shipping charge includes in- 
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International Orders: Call 206-883-8312. We ship throughout the 
free world. Contact Mac's Place for information. Mail. FAX or 

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Holders 

Fellows Step Ct/6e— Compact cube 
holds 15 disl«,$9.00. Fan-File — 
Great for traveling or on the shelf, 
$5.00. Copy /Irm— Portable, light, 
adjustable height, $6.00. 



Aldus Advanced 
PostScript drawing pro- 
gram. Features color 
seps and screened val- 
ues for color tints, text 
placement along a user- 
defined path, variable 
letter, word, and line 
spacing, eight levels of 
Undo and Redo, and 
much more. 



TimeWorks 

Publish 111 Easy 2.0 Call 

Williams & Macias 

Software 

MyDiskLabeler III 48. 

Sticky Business 55. 

Sticky Business Plus 1.2 94. 

Zedcor Inc 

Deskpaint/Deskdraw 3 1 14. 



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Click Change $40 

Dubl-Click Personalize the 
look and feel of your Mac! 
This creative CDEV allows 
you to be the master of your 
user interface. Select alterna- 
tive buttons, colors, cursors, 
scrollbars, sounds, and win- 
dows. It’s easy, compatible 
and very, very hip! 



Survivor Software 

Invoice It 48. 

MacMoney 3.5 58. 

Symantec 

More 3.0 260. 

Symmetry 

Acta Advantage 62. 

Key Plan 239. 

Synergy Software 
Kaleidagraph 2.0 144. 

Synex 

MacEnvelope Plus 2 155. 

T/Maker 

Writ0No\v2.2.. 119. 

Taleware 

M.Y.O.B 143. 

Timealips Corporation 

TimeSlipslll 178. 

TimeWorks 

Hyperworks Organizer 56, 

Tops/Sitka 

Irtox 3.0 DOS Admin 209. 

IntMx 3.0 Mac Admin 209. 

Intjox 3.0 Plus Mac 625. 

Tops 3.0 Network Bundle 186. 



Traveling Software 

Lap*Link Mac Network Pac ...... 179. 

Lap-Link Mac Connect. Pac 109. 

WordPerfect Corp. 



WordPerfect 228. 

Zedcor Inc 

Desk 219. 



Graphics 



3G Graphics 

Ima^s W/Impact 

Business 1 63. 

Graphics & Symbol 49. 

Accents 64. 

Adobe 

ATM Plus Pack 107. 

Collector's Edition II 128. 

Collectors Editions I 78. 

Illustrator 3.0 w/ATM 2.0 355. 



Sensible Grammar 
& Book Ends 

Sensible Software Proof- 
reading program with library 
of over 4500 commonly mis- 
used English phrases. Checks 
for improper noun-verb, ar- 
ticle-noun, verb-modifier 
agreements, plus many other 
types of errors. Reports 
analyze homonymis, 
show readability, 
word counts, long sen- 
tence, more. 



Starter Kit/Naviga- 
tor Bundle $65 

Great opportunity to gel set up 
on America's #1 BBS. Includes 
subscrition to CompuServe, 
S25 useage credit. Navigator. 
Saves $$ & time by automati- 
cally finding and downloading 
only the items you need. 



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Norton Utilities 
for the 

Macintosh $89 

Symantec Fixes more 
disk problems and saves 
more data than any other 
program. Includes Disk 
Doctor, UnErase, Speed 
Disk, Format Recover, 
FileSaver, Disk Editor, 
KeyFinder, and Fast Find. 
Ask us about any of these 
life saving utilities. 



Photoshop 495. 

PubPak 1: Newsletters 227. 

PubPak 2: Forms & Scheds 275. 

PubPak 3: Presentations 275. 

Smart Art 1-4..- 83 ea 

Streamline 224. 

Type Align - 57. 

Type Manager 54. 

Type Reunion - 38. 

Type Set 1 or.2 57. 

Type Set 3 89. 

Aldus 

Freehand 2.02 325. 

Pagemaker 4.0 495. 

Persuasion 2.0 - 325. 

PrePrint 325. 

Altsys 

Art Importer 2.0 88. 

Fbntastic Plus 50. 

Fontographer 3.0 245. 

Metamorphosis 1 145. 



Electronic Arts 



Studio/1 89. 

Studio/32 Call 

Studio/8 294. 



FM Waves 



Amvare 

1. Agenda for 90s 80. 

2. Borders 88. 

3. Glamour 88. 

4. Fashion 88. 

5. Fantasy 88. 

B.Animals 88. 

7.Business Cartoons 88. 

•Vol.1-7 CD-ROM 298. 

Foundation Publishing 

Comic Strip Factory - 37. 

Comic People 

Vol. 1 - Office Days — 20. 

Vol.2-Kid Stuff -.20. 

Innovative Data Design 

Dreams 315. 

MacDraft2 -189. 

Letraset 

ColorStudio 1 

DesignStudio 1 .... 

FontStudio 

Imagestudio 

Letrastudio ....273. 

ReadySetGo! 4.5 178. 

Macromind 

Macromind Director 436. 

Paracomp 

Model Shop 1.1 359. 

Swivel 3D ■*, 294. 

Swivel 3D Professional 429. 

Silicon Beach Software 

Digital Darkroom — 245. 

Super 3D 2.0 (Color) 309. 

SuperPaint 2.0 122. 

Solutions Inc. 

Curator 75, 

Smart Scrap 8i the Clipper 44. 

Super Glue II 65. 

Studiotronics Inc. 

Colorsei 1,5 225, 

SuperMac Software 

PixelpaintZO Call 

Pixelpaint Pro - Call 

Tactic Software 

Artclip 1st Edition 49 

Artcllp2ndED 64. 

Artfonts 52. 

FontShare 139. 

Icon-ltl 44. 

Sound Clips 1-4 - 48. 



2400 Baud 
Modem MacPac 
$178 



Supra Mac calls this the “Best 
value modem package for the 
Macintosh In the world!” In- 
cludes the 
SupraModem 2400, 
Microphone 1 .5, an 
America Online 
Starter Kit, and mo- 
dem cable for a Mac 
Plus, SE, or II. 



Ashlar 




Vellum 


685 


' Baseline Publishing 


Color MacCheese 


59. 


Talking Moose 


24. 


Broderbund 




Print Shop 


35. 


TypeStyler - 


114. 


Claris 




Clari.s CAD 


-569. 


MacDraw II 


287. 


MacPaint 2.0 


92. 



Doneba Software 

Canvas 2.1 179, 

tlltrapaint -.^1]9' 

Dubl-Click Software^ 

Lasertype 

Vol 1-9 .p ,.-39. 

WetPaint 

Vol 1 & 2 Classic Clip Art .—, 39. 

Vol 1 1 & 12 Industrial 39. 

Vol 13 & 14 Old Earth Aim uj^,„39. 
Vol 15 & 16 Island Life ..^...^^..39. 

Vol 17 & 18 All The People ,:.39. 

Vol 3 &4 For Publishing :?«..39. 

Vol 5 & 6 Animal Kingdom 39. 

Vol 7 & 8 Spc. Occasions 39. 

Vol 9 & 10 Printer's Helper 39. 

World Class Fonts 

Four 2 Vol. SeisEa -.39. 

Eastgate Systems 

Fontina 36. 



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I 







Intersect CDR 35 
Portable CD ROM 
Reader $459 

NEC This compact and light- 
weight (2.2 lbs) reader delivers 
the dependable performance of 
full-size readers and full CD- 
ROM capability at an afford- 
able price. Includes Interface Kit. 



Utilities 






Type Gallery PS 



TypeGoJiorv PS i 



NEC 



Type Gallery 
CD ROM Call 
For Incredible 
Low Price 

NEC Turn your Mac into 
a type house. Type Gallery 
PS lets you access over 500 
Adobe PostScript typefaces 
from a single CD-ROM disc. 
The most convenient and af- 
fordable way to buy type. Call 
for details ij^w! 



ICOM Simulations 

HyperTMON 58. 

TMON 2.8.2 86. 

Mainstay 

V.I.P 86. 

Microsoft 

Quick Basic Ver 1.0 64. 

Microsoft Press 

Inside SuperCard 1.5 17. 

Now Software 

Prototyper 3.0 182. 

Silicon Beach Software 

Super Card 1,5 185. 

Somak 

Script Edit 

Symantec 

Just Enough Pascal 49. 

Think C 4.0 160. 

Lightspeed Pascal 3 159. 

TGS Systems 

Prograph 239. 

Zedcer Inc 

ZBasic 5.0 114. 



Aladdin Systems 

Shortcut 44. 

Stuffit Deluxe 1 59. 

Alsoft 

Oiskexpress II 52. 

MulliDisk 47. 

Baseline Publishing 

1 Shot Worksheet 59. 

ExpressTape 59. 

INIT Manager 36. 

Beagle Brothers Software 

Flash 128. 

Berkeley System Design 

After Dark 2.0 22. 

Stepping Out 49. 

Casady & Greene 
Quickdex 31. 



Desktop Music 
Creativity Kit CD 
ROM Call 

Passport Includes Trax^ a 
desktop MIDI recording 
studio; HyperMusic, a 
HyperCard “Jukebox" for 
playing back songs, 

Sound Exciter, an 8- 
voice software synthe- 
sizer and sample 
player, (includes 
songs). Music Data 
MIDI Sequences, song sam- 
plings, and Apple’s MIDI Man- 
age . 

Art CD-ROM Ca// . 

Somak Each Somak disk contains a high- 
quality collection of EPS clip art and fonts 
for desktop publishing and jllustratipn, and 
comes with a 32-page image directory. Top- 
ics include sports fransportatibn; borders, ani- 
mals, buildings, holidays and maps. 



Dubl-Click Software 

Calculator Con Set 2.0 44. 

ClickChange 40. 

Farallon 

Screen Recorder 124. 

Timbuktu 3.0 (30 Pk) 1279. 

Timbuktu 3.0 Single User 94. 

Timbuktu Remote ..122. 

Traffic Watch 124. 

Phonenet- . 

Check Net 

Fifth Generation - - 

Disk Lock 105. 

Fast Back |l 119. 

PowerStation 2.B^. 33. 

PyrBT4.0. 1% 1....22. 

Suitcase ll\y .^4/. .^..... . 42. 

Superspool 5.0 57. 

Foundation Publishing 
HyperSpeller 1 
ICOM Simulations 

On Cue II ! ..52. 

Individual Software 

101 Scripts & Buttons For HC 39. 

Infosphere 

Liaison 169. 

Kent Marsh 

MacSafe 105. 

Night Watch 79. 

Quicklock 34. 

Mainstay 

Capture 42. 

Micrecom 

911 Utilities Call. 

Complete 
Undelete .... Call. 
Carbon Copy Mac 
118. 

Carbon Copy Mac 

TwinPak 168. 

Virex 51. 

Microlytics 

Gofer 2.0 44. 

inside Information . 68. 

Wordfinder 33. 

Microseeds 

Init Picker 2.0 35. 

Redux 48. 

....49. 



Now Software 

Now Utilities 2.0 79. 

Screen Locker 45. 

Olduvai Software 

MultiClip. 69, 

ON Technology 

On Location ....72. 

Prometheus 

Macknowledge 82. 

Psybron Systems 

CalenDAr 25. 

Sabastian Software 

Image Grabber 2.0 33. 

Salient 

Disk Doubler 45. 

Partner 58 

Software Innovations 

HandOffll 50. 

Somak 

SharpenUp a 59. 

SuperMac Software 

SuperLaserSpool 1 -5 Users 205. 

SuperLaserSpool 2.0 84. 

Symantec 

Norton Utilities for the Mac 89. 

S.A.M 64. 

S.U.M. II 96. 

Synergy Software 

Versa Term 4.0 88. 

Versa Term Pro 3.0 174. 

Vertical Solutions 

FastEnvelope DA 45. 

FastLabel 45. 

Entertainment 

Access Software 

World Class Leader Board 32. 

Accolade 

4th & Inches 25. 

Fastbreak 26. 

Grand Prix Circuit 27. 

Hardball 25. 

Mean 18 25. 

Test Drive II Duel 30. 

Activision 

Cosmic Osmo 39. 

20 

ZZZZZzA 

Ancient Art Of War . 26 
Ancient Art Of War At 

Sea ...26 

Playmaker Football .. 29 

Shufflepuck Cafe 23. 

Sim City Terrain Ed.. 16. 

SinKity 1.1 28. 

Simcity Color 47. 



CE Software 

Alarming Events 

Calendarmaker 3.0 
Disktop 4.0^ Util 



31. 

^...;.62. 

Mockpackage Plus 4.4 31. 

Quickeys 2.0 .^93. 

Central Point Software 

Copy II Mac 21. 

Mac Tools Deluxe 75. 

Dantz Development 

Retrospect 145. 

Dayna Communications 
Dos Mounter 53. 



Foreign Language 

Software see Listings 
Hyperglot These HyperCard-based 
lessons feature native speakers dealing 
with real world situations that prepare 
you for visiting or living in a particular 
country. L^k about the Learn to Speak 
CD ROM series for French or Spanish. 






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Star Wars 23. 

The Playroom 29, 

Carmen San Diego (Europe)’ 29. 

Carmen San Diego lU.S A|? 29. 

Carmen San Diego (World)? 29. 

Carmen San Diego (Time)? 29. 

Buliseye Software 

Ferrari Grand Prix 32, 

P-51 Mustang Flight Simulator ... 31. 
Casady & Greene 

Crystal Quest 2.2 32. 

Crystal Quest & Critter Ed 48. 

Mission Starlight 29. 

Sky Shadow 29. 

Ceniron 

Casino Master B & W 42. 

Casino Master Deluxe Color 48. 

Electronic Arts 

Bard’S Tale 31. 

Blockout ....29. 

Chessmaster2100 32. 

Chuck Yeager's (A.F.T.) 31, 

Might & Magic II 38. 

Starflight 39. 

Weav'er Baseball 34. 

Entertainment On-Line 

Lottery Tracker & Wheeler 24. 

Inline Design 

Battle of Britain 2 31 

Bomber (W/Headphones) 31. 

Darwin’s Dilemma 31. 

Lucasfilm 

Pipe Dream 17. 

Mediagenic 

Shanghai 18. 

Micro Loaguo Sports 
Micro League Baseball li 35. 

Microprose 

Pirates! 35. 

Microsoft 

Flight Simulator 1.02 32. 

Miles Computing 

Fool’s Errand...... 31. 

Harrier Strike Mission I) 31. 

Puzzle Gallery 26. 

Mindscape 

Balance Of Pov/er '90 29. 

Colony 29. 

Crossv/ord Magic 29. 

Deja Vu 29. 

Deja Vu II (Las Vegas) 29. 

Gauntlet 16. 

Shado'A’Gate 24. 

Uninvited 24. 

Origin Systems 

Auteduel 23. 

Moebius 23. 

Postcraft International 
Citadel 27. 



Silicon Beach Software 

Apache Strike 1.1 31. 

Beyond Dark Castle 31. 

Dark Castle 31. 

Software Toolworks 

Cribbage King,T5in King 38. 

Hunt For Red October 31, 

Life And Death 31. 

Spectrum Holobyte 

Falcon 2.2 30. 

PT-109 26. 

Solitaire Royale (Color) 19, 

Tetris (Black & White) 19. 

Weittris 20. 

Strategic Simulations. Inc. 

ADSD; Pool Of Radiance 32. 

AD&D: Pool Of Radiance/Curse .. 34. 
Strategic Studies Group 

Panzer Battles 28. 

Three Sixty 

ArmorAllev 34. 

Harpoon 39. 

Sancs Of Fire 32. 

Toyogo. Inc. 

Nemesis Go Master 47. 

Go Master Deluxe 95. 

Jose<i Tutor 28. 

Tactical Wizard 34. 

XOR Corporation 

Berrruda Square 19, 

Luna' Rescue 32. 

MacCourses 19. 

MacGolf Classic 52. 

MacSki 38. 

NFL Challenge 53. 

Road Racer 38. 

TaskMaker 26. 



Planisoft $139 

ASD Coordinate individual and group 
agendas, find available time slots for ap- 
pointments, keep track of deadlines and 
priorities, distribute tasks evenly, opti- 
mize resources, and share information 
between Macs and PCs over any LAN. 

Educational 

Bright Star Tochnology 

Alphabet Blocks 29 

Hyper Animator 15 ...96. 

InierFACE 239. 

Talking Tiles 25. 

Brodorbund 

Calculus 57 

Geometry 57 

Physics 57 

Type! 18. 

Carina 

Vo-rager 1.2 87 

Davidson & 

Associates 

MathB'asier 26 

Speed Reader II 



Redux $48 

Microseeds Backs 
up your files pain- 
lessly and quickly so 
that you can work 
without worrying 
about the health and 
well being of all the 
stuff on your hard 
disk. 



Audiomedia, DECK, 

Clip Tunes see UsUngs 

Digidesign The complete audio production 
system for the Mac II. Multimedia producers 
and musicians use these tools to produce, 
edit, and play back professional CD-quality 
audio directly from their Macs, 



ADB Trackball $69 

Mouse Systems Gain unparalleled control 
over your Mac! The Trackball proviq^.ypy 
with smooth, accurate cursor positioning. 

Get full mouse functionality at a fraction of ^ 
the space. Attractive ergonoihic' styleTor 
hours of comfortable use and productivity. , 



Quality Artware™ 
Clip Art With An 

Attitude See Listings 
FM Waves Beautiful, imagina- 
live, evocative, hilarious im- 
ages. 7 volumes available, 60- 
1 00 images per volume ((5 are 
400 dpi TIFF): Animals, Agenda 
for the 90s, Business Cartoons, 
Fantasy, Glamour, Fashion, EPS 
Borders. Includes. TIFF to PICT 
convener. 



First Byte , ^ ^ / 

American Discover'/ 26: 

Dinosaur Disw^-erv; Kir 

Puzzle Ston/b 6 ok^|^...t»,^^. 2(j. 

Great Wave Software ^ 

KIdsmath - 

Kidstime .. 25. 

Number V1az% ..... 3 ^..*,... 25. 

Help Software 

Desktop Help For Excel d^.. 49. 

HyperGlot Software 
Japanese-KanjikTast^ Beg 98. 
Learning To Speak Fr.-CD ROM 1 74. 
Chinese * 

Writing Tutor ......If. 41. 



Pronunciation Tutor 

Span..Fr.,Ger..Chinese 

Russian 

Beg. Intro 


0 . 

28. 


Survivor Manual 


41. 


Noun Tutor w/sound 


58. 


Tense Tutor 




;Span..Fr.,Ger„ltl 


41. 


Verbal Tutor/Aspect 




'.Span..Fr.,G 0 r..Russ 


.......41 


Word Torture 3.0 




Russ., Span,, Fr., Gor., Itl 


28. 


Learning Company 




Math Rabbit 


30 


Reader Rabbit 22 


30. 


Penton Overseas 




French Les,el 1 or 2 


35. 


German level 1 or 2 


..-,-35. 


Hebrew Level 1 or 2 


- 35. 


Italian Level 1 or 2 


35. 


Japarrese Level 1 or 2 


35. 


Russian Level 1 or 2 


.35 


Spanish Level 1 or 2 


35. 


Personal Training Systems 


Mac Carries All PTS Products 53. ea. 


Simon & Schuster 




Typing Tutor IV 


28. 


Software Toolworks 




Mavis Beacon Typirtg 


32 



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Prograph 2.0 
$249 

TGS Systems Pow* 
erful object-oriented 
language that 
eliminates the 
need to use C, 

Pascal or any 
other textual lan- 
guage-plus an applica- 
tion builder that lets you 
generate user interfaces as 
fast as you can draw them. 



Hardware 



Aapps Corporation 

DigiVideo 393. 

DigiVidoo Color 659, 

Micro TV 264. 

Abaton 

Interfax 12/48 Fax/Modem 259. 

Interfax 24/96 Fax/Modem 415. 

Quickstep Page Printer 2195. 

Scanner 300/GS8Bit 1145. 

Asante 

MacCornllE 390. 

MacCon+IIE64 375. 

MacCon+IIET 389. 

MacCon+SE/30£ 389. 

MacCon+S^30ET 389. 

MacContSE30E64 375. 

MacConfSEE 289. 

MacCon+SEE .ytz'.. j.289, 

Cayman Systems 

GatorSox 

GatorCardE/ll X 

GatorCard E/SE for SE .tiw... 459.“ 

GatorCard E/SE30 ?:.459. 

GatorShare Software 1389, 

Connectix 

Virtual- 68030 Macs 110 . 

Virtual W/PMMU 185. 

Datadesk 

Funtion Key Module 38. 

Hyper Dialer 24. 

Mac 101 Keyboard 129. 

SsvitchBall 119. 

Switchboard 172. 

David Systems 

ID Base l 5 Soli Concentrator .. 998. 

10 Base-TC/TP Module 1585. 



10 Baso-T Supervisor Module . 1398. 
Volksnel Twisted Pair HUB 998. 



Hard Drives See Inset 

Mac’s Place Build an internal or ex- Repeater m 

ternal hard drive to your personal 

specifications. Select from Quantum, Remoie/9300V32 Mod Pak 839. 

Seagate, CDC, Microcropolis, Syquest, Phonenet 

and others. One- and two-year on 

warrantees. External cases designed Din8 (lOPk) 195. 

specifically for the Mac. Choose plati- star Connector 17. 

num or black case. Ask about switch- Star Conn.(iOPk) 1 19. 

able termination option. Fujitsu 

800k Disk Drive (Platinum) 139. 

Hayes 

V2400 Baud Modem 375. 

V2400 Internal vv/software 485. 

Incomm Modems 

Mac II 2400BD Internal .'^.149. 

9600 V.32 External 

96C0V.32 MNP5Jbit,Brhal4:^,^..\^.V 
Iomega / 

Bernoulli Duaf Drive 2095. 

Bernoulli Ponable^ / 1T95. 

Bernoulli Transpor^le .L 1 165. 

Bernoulli Tri-P&k Gold ....iy^.....285; 
Micron Color Card ^ 
8BilSE/30-137lVNW.r-/339. 
3Bil SmO - 19- Nlon 5^8. 

8Bil Macll - 13V 14' Morr^.^98. 

KM 30 Joystick ,^49 

Kraft No software required! Dual axis trim center- 
ing for accurate, stable cursor control. Adjust- 
able cursor sensitivity, two fire/select but- 
tons for fast action and control. Three 
function modes: spring-centered joy- 
stick, free-float joystick, or 
mouse. 



BBit Macll -19‘ Mon 


.,569. 


Mobius 




Fanny Mac (Ratinum) 


....55 


NEC 




CDR-35 CD Drive/Type Gallery 




Bundle 


..588. 


CDR-72 CD Rom Drive 


Call. 


Intersect COR Interface KIT 


....63. 


Intersect CDR-35 Bat Pak 


59 


CDR-35 CD Rom Drive Port 


..395, 


Macsync 14" Color Monitor ... 


..498, 


Muitsync XL 20' CIr Mon 


.2695 


Orange Micro 




Grappler 9 Rn IC/Mac/Gs) ..... 


76. 


Mac286 Nubus Card 


1069. 


Mac 86 Nubus Card 


...440. 


Orchid Technology 




Fax Modem 9600/9600 


..445. 


RostarOps 




ClearVue/GS3Q Gray Scale .. 


1698. 


SE 19" Mon 16mhz Accel/ 


1485 


108+SE/30 


.1078. 


'•■224(24Bit)19*,i 


315L 


264 Mac II (24 Bit) 




264SE/30(24Bit) ^ 


.. 688 . 


Shiva Corporation 




Ethergate 


,1618. 


FastPath 4 : 


1895 


NelBridge J . 


.338, 


Netf\4pdemV.32 


,1345 


Netmodem VZ400 r. 


...428' 


NetSerial 


...274 


Telebridge 


..338 


SIMM Hitachi 




Single Inline Memory Modules 


Simm4Meg 80ns ( 1 x 8 ) 


...Call. 


Simm 4 Meg 80ns ( 1 x 8 ) Mac IlfxCall. 


SIMM Micron Made in USA 


Simm 1 Meg BOns 


0. 


Simm FX 1 Meg BOns 


0. 


Sigma Designs 




ColorMax 




8-24 B Bit Video Card 


1495. 


19’ Trinitrai Monitor 


.3590. 


L-View Multi-Mode 




Mac 1119* B&W 


.1129. 


Mac II Video Card 


...458. 


PageView? 




B&W 15’ Portrait Monitor 


...745. 


B&W Video Card 


...389. 



Dayna Communications 

Dual Drive 360k/l. 2MB 718. 

Dual Drive 360k/l. 44MB 634 

Dual Drive 1.2MB/1. 44MB 889. 

Single Drive 5.25736DKB 495. 

Daystar Digital 

Fast Cachejt(ci 290. 

Dovo ^ * \ 

OoveFax Desktop 269. 

MacSnap 

52,4 (512k to 1m6) 189. 

524E |512kE tolniD) 179. 

524S (512kE to Imb w/SCSI) .... 235. 

540 |512ktu2mb):;. 429. 

548E|512kEto2ml) 415. 

548S (512I(E to 2mbWsCSI) .... 475. 

SCSI Poq Adapter 109. 

Marathon^ 

68030 for Mac IIX 445. 

6803D for Plus ^ 445. 

68030 MultiComm , 4 ^...! 315. 

68030 Parallel/SeriaU.,5. 189. 

68030 for Mac II 439 

68030 fofSE 435. 

Racer. .140. 
Everox 3*^ - 

Bnac 60T (Tape Backup) ,,... 1 ;,... 645. 
EMAC 150MB Tape Backup .%;:.975 
MD2400 Baud Modem MNP-5 . 169. 



Farallon 

MacReccrdar 2.0 153. 

MacRecordar Voice Digitizer 80 . 

Media Tracks 189. 



Media Tracks Multimedia Pack 319. 



Fontina $36 

Eastgate Systems, Inc. Makes 
every font menu work better. Ban 
endless scrolling— Fontina menus 
show every font instantly, without 
scrolling! V\^ant a peek at an un- 
usual font? Just point to it I Light- 
ning fast, intelligent menus save 
time and prevent mistakes. 



Icon-It $44 



Tactic Software The perfect 
way to customize your work 
environment. Group frequently 
used commands into a custom- 
ized Icon Bar and place it any- 
where on your screen. Includes 
icon editor and over 1 00 pre- 
designed Icon Bars. 




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Hard Drives 

Pick a case, pick a drive. Mac will 
build it format it test it juarantee it 
and send you the hard drive of your 
dreams overnight I 
Cache Systems 
Mounting Bracket (Se/llcx/llci) ... 29. 

Case Opener/Torex Kit 16. 

Hard Drive Case 

Full Height Case Black 220. 

Full Height Case Platinum 220. 

Half Height Case Black 168. 

Half Height Case Platinum 159. 

SyquestCasB Platinum 155. 

SyQuest Case Black 165. 

COC5.25" Full Height Drive 

C0C300MEG16MilSec 1498. 

CDC 300MEG10Mil Sec 1819. 

COCeOOMeg 2049. 

CDC 5.25" Half Height Drive 

CDC170MEG 1098. 

Maxtor 5.25" 

Full Height Drive 

200-Meg 15ms 2>'ear Warranty 998. 
61 5- Meg 16ms 2year Warranty 1998. 
675-Meg 16ms 2year Warranty2295. 

Micropoiis 5.25" Full 
Height Drive 

Micropoiis 675MEG 2098. 

Micropoiis 5.25" Half 
Height Drive 

Micropoiis 150MEG 1048. 

Micropoiis 330MEG 

Quantum 3.5" Drive 
Half Height Drive 

105-MEG 19ms 579. 

120-MEG 15ms 679. 

170-MEG 15ms 849. 

40-MEG 19ms 349. 

80-MEG 19ms 549. 

Syquest 

44 MEG Cartridges 79. 

44 MEG Mechanism (No Cart) .. 445. 

Sony 

14* Multiscan 785. 

Summagraphics 
BitPadf 12 X 12 Tablet-Adb 
315. 

Supra Corp. 

Supra Modem 2400 Baud 
118. 

Supra Modem 2400 MacPac 
178. 

Telebit 

T-10009600 589. 



T-200019k 1095. 

T-2500V.32W/PEP19k 1125. 

Trailblazer + lBk 869. 

Thunderware 

Lightning Scan 375. 

Thunderscan 5.0 189. 

Tops/Sitka 

Flash Card (Dos) 154. 

Tops Rashbox 118. 

Tops Repeater 117. 



FOe Guard 2.5 $139 

ASD Protect your hard disks, applications, 
files, and folders (including the System) 
from unauthorized access and deletion. 
Includes audit trail capability. Also avail- 
able in five- or ten- user office packs. 

Ergotron 



Total Systems Inc. 




MacTilt (Beige or Plat) .... 


..68. 




Gemkit(For 512k 8t Plus) 


... 120. 


MacTiliSE 


..68. 




QuickCACHEIIci 


...379. 


Fuji Disks 






Gemini 68030 Accelerators 




DD-IOPack 


..10. 




SE 20mhz 


...768. 


DD-Bulk (Units Of 50) .. .65 ea. 




SE25mhz 


...998. 


DD-Rainbow 10 Pack 


..11. 




SE 33mhz 


1185. 


HD-Bulk (Min 50) 1.48 ea. 




SE40mhz 


,1298. 


HD-10 Pack (1.44 meg) .... 




.18. 


SE 50mhz 


,1525. 


HD-Rainbow 10 Pack 




.19. 


U.S. Robotics 




Golden Ribbons 






9600 Hst Modem 


..675. 


Imagewriter Multi Color ,. 




...7. 






Imagewriter Ribbons - Black 3. 




ACCESSORIES 










Acco 










DiskPage/10 Pages/120 Disks 


....28. 








Advanced Gravis 










Mousestick 512K/Plus 


63. 








MousestickADB 


64. 









W 



Altra 

Felix . 

American Power 
Conversion 

SMART UPS 400 295. 

UPS HOSE 205. 

Apple 

Toner/Laserwriter II 105. 
Toner/Laserwriter PluslOS. 
C-Enterprises 

ABBoxIADB) 38. 

ABCD Box(ADB| 49. 

Casio 

CasioLink/Mac 89. 

B.O.S.S. 

SF-7500 197. 

SF-8000 215. 



SF-9500 



..245 



PicturePak 
Holiday 
Clips- Ca// 

MGI New— and just 
in time for the holi- 
days! A collection of 
80 clip art images cov- 
ering the traditional 
holidays— Christmas, 
Hanukkah, New 
Year's, Valentine’s Day- 
plus many that cover special 
occasions like President’s 
Day, Mother’s Day, Anni- 
versaries, and Birthdays. 

Fast Pitch $119 

Objectlc Systems, Inc. Make standard or 
multimedia presentations ’qufckly with this 
simple, flexible program?' Ideal for the class- 
room or business meetingsft Pitth. charts can 
be printed or played dynand^ally'with sounds 
motion, or other media. Requires HyperCard. 
Free upgrades available^ 



Mac Luggage Neon 
Ultimate SE Bags $^ 

I/O Designs Combines style and sturdi- 
ness. Has an interior compartment for any 
size keyboard plus two extra outside pockets 
for manuals and cords. Available in neon 
pink, yellow, green, navy or black. 



I/O Design 

MacLuggage 

Ultimate Necn-Pinkj Yellow, or 

Green .....{^...:»....t::.88. 

Ultimate SE Black Of Navy .^79. 

Kensington Microware 

Apple Security Kit System 33 

2' Long AOB Keyb.Cable24.' 

Macll Stand W/Exten .Cables 64. 



Felix The 
Better Mouse 
$124 

Altra Finally, a stationary 
mouse that’s quicker and 
easier to use. Utilizes "Op- 
tical Pointing Technology” 
and an on-board micropro- 
cessor to achieve very high 
resolution. Full-screen cur- 
sor control in just six 
square inches of desk 
space! 



SE Radiation/Anti-Glare Filter ....52. 

Super Base — ......33. 

System Saver Fan (Beige) 63. 

System Saver Fan (Platinum) 63. 

Tilt Swivel 22. 

Turbo Mouse (512k & Plus) 107. 

Turbo Mouse Adb 107. 

Keytronics 

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^ I05mb$ 
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Memory Upgrade 



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When you get serious about your Macintosh, 

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MEMORY^ 

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Products marked with a ^ are con- 
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money (usually around 40 percent 
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MacZone, Dr. Mac, and so on. Some 
softvyare as indicated is available by 
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Reader 

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844 DisCoasters The Com- 
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847 LabeiWriter Printer 
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Reader 

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849 Macintosh Dust Covers 

Abcom; 619/872-1946. 
$10 to $24.95. 

850 Mousepads The Com- 
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to $15.95'. 

851 Nada Chair Nada- 
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852 PassProof Kensington 
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853 Protector Shark Ibis Soft- 
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854 Pyro Fifth Generation 
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• Solarian II by Ben Haller. 
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* Stupid Mac Tricks by Bob 
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